Translations update

[falzonv]

Hello,

The goal of this permanent ticket is to make translators life easier: I will post here when translations need updates.
If you enable notifications for this ticket, you won't need to check yourself for changes.

Thank you again for your help in translating Discreet Launcher!

Best regards.

Process

(It is meant to evolve based on your feedback and our collective experience.)

• When strings need to be updated
  • They will be posted here with links to the related commits.
  • For the update, you can do a pull request (preferred) or reply in this ticket with translations for me to copy-paste.
• Other remarks
  • If the ID of a string changes or if a string is removed, I will update translations myself.
  • Android Studio doesn't like missing strings in a language => new strings will be added in English everywhere, waiting for translation (a comment here will inform you).
  • Once translations are integrated, the related comments will be hidden to keep this ticket easy to read.

Current translations and maintainers

	Translation	Maintainer
da	Danish	@lianergoist
de	German	@tuch96
en	English (default)	Vincent
es	Spanish	@yetanotherfossman
fr	French	Vincent
in	Indonesian	@MD-IS
it	Italian	@Rhapsodizer
ja	Japanese	@Npepperlinux
nb-rNO	Norwegian Bokmål	@comradekingu
pt	Portuguese	@odanoburu
ru	Russian	@ArturAiwasan
tr	Turkish	@adiloguz
uk	Ukrainian	@bmivzkrp

[tuch96]

Hi Vincent, would it help the project if there was a German translation? If so, I could do it. But you would have to tell me how this works best here on the platform :-).

[comradekingu]

@tuch96
Copy
https://github.com/falzonv/discreet-launcher/blob/main/app/src/main/res/values/strings_settings.xml
https://github.com/falzonv/discreet-launcher/blob/main/app/src/main/res/values/strings_help.xml
https://github.com/falzonv/discreet-launcher/blob/main/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml

over to respectively

https://github.com/falzonv/discreet-launcher/blob/main/app/src/main/res/values-de/strings_settings.xml
https://github.com/falzonv/discreet-launcher/blob/main/app/src/main/res/values-de/strings_help.xml
https://github.com/falzonv/discreet-launcher/blob/main/app/src/main/res/values-de/strings.xml

and change the English text for German.
In similar vein to

https://github.com/falzonv/discreet-launcher/pull/77/files :)

[comradekingu]

F-Droid has support for a "Translations" field in "Links".
Would be nice if it could link here right from the app listing like for example https://f-droid.org/en/packages/superfreeze.tool.android/.
It is possible to do that in metadata, but also putting a file called "TRANSLATION" in the root directory works.
I much prefer the former.

[falzonv]

Hello @comradekingu,

Interesting, I never noticed that translation field in F-Droid!
Created https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2510 to request the addition in metadata, we will see where it goes ;-)

Best regards.

[falzonv]

Hello,

For information the new release v7.3.0 has been published, thank you all for the updates!
(it may take 4 to 8 days before being available in F-Droid)

@MD-IS: when you have some time, could you please update your translation? (for these updates and the previous ones)

Best regards.

[falzonv]

Dear all,

For each translation, I will soon merge the files "strings.xml", "strings_settings.xml" and "strings_help.xml" into a single file named "strings.xml" (which is the convention in most Android apps).
You have no actions to do, this message is only for information.

Best regards

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For more details:

Currently the Discreet Launcher strings are organized in 3 files (strings.xml, strings_settings.xml and strings_help.xml).
The reason for this organization was that, at the beginning, the Google Play version of Discreet Launcher was a paid app and there was a free version called Discreet Launcher Lite for people to try the idea. The Lite version had almost no options and used only the file strings.xml, while the normal version used all 3 files.

End of September 2021, with v5.1.0, I decided to make the Google Play version free and to remove the Lite version as it wasn't really worth it to maintain both.
However, I never really noticed until recently that there was no reason anymore to have 3 separated strings files.

So I will group them into a single file for each translation, and take the opportunity to make some standardization to simplify the script I use to check all translation files are aligned (strings in the same order, same comments, etc.).

[falzonv]

Hello @ArturAiwasan, @comradekingu, @tuch96, @MD-IS, @bmivzkrp, @Npepperlinux, @yetanotherfossman, @lianergoist, @odanoburu, @adiloguz, @Rhapsodizer,

This has a been a very long time, much more than I expected even considering my announce in ticket #314 and I am sorry for that, I hope you are all doing well.
Without entering in the details, since almost one year now I have repetitive strain injuries in both wrists and had to reduce a lot my computer activities, especially programming.

Nevertheless, I am pleased to inform you that a new Discreet Launcher release is coming soon!

I plan to publish it before end of August so that I can still post the update in Google Play using API 33 and have more time to review the app for migration to API 34, not sure yet how much effort this migration will require.

For this release there are only 2 new strings:

<string name="set_notification_warning_disabled">Notifications are disabled by system settings</string>

      <!-- (home screen text-to-speech description for accessibility) -->
<string name="help_touch_targets">Swipe down to display the menu button, you can enable touch targets in the Operation menu</string>

Like before, you can update your translations either by creating a pull request or by writing a comment here for me to copy-paste the new strings in your file.
Don't worry about the August deadline mentioned above, if some translations are missing when I publish this release they will be integrated in the next one.

Thank you in advance for your help :-)

Best regards

[yetanotherfossman]

Glad to hear about you again!

Spanish translation:

<string name="set_notification_warning_disabled">Las notificaciones están desactivadas en la configuración del sistema</string>

      <!-- (home screen text-to-speech description for accessibility) -->
<string name="help_touch_targets">Desliza hacia abajo para mostrar el botón de menú; puedes activar los objetivos táctiles en el menú de Operación</string>

[bmivzkrp]

<string name="set_notification_warning_disabled">Сповіщення вимкнені у налаштуваннях системи</string> <!-- (home screen text-to-speech description for accessibility) --> <string name="help_touch_targets">Для відображення кнопки Меню - проведіть вниз. Ви можете ввімкнути цілі для дотику в меню операцій</string> 03.08.24 00:40, Vincent Falzon:

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Hello @ArturAiwasan, @comradekingu, @tuch96, @MD-IS, @bmivzkrp, @Npepperlinux, @yetanotherfossman, @lianergoist, @odanoburu, @adiloguz, @Rhapsodizer, This has a been a very long time, much more than I expected even considering my announce in ticket #314 and I am sorry for that, I hope you are all doing well. Without entering in the details, since almost one year now I have repetitive strain injuries in both wrists and had to reduce a lot my computer activities, especially programming. Nevertheless, I am pleased to inform you that a new Discreet Launcher release is coming soon! I plan to publish it before end of August so that I can still post the update in Google Play using API 33 and have more time to review the app for [migration to API 34](https://developer.android.com/google/play/requirements/target-sdk), not sure yet how much effort this migration will require. For this release there are only 2 new strings: ``` <string name="set_notification_warning_disabled">Notifications are disabled by system settings</string> <!-- (home screen text-to-speech description for accessibility) --> <string name="help_touch_targets">Swipe down to display the menu button, you can enable touch targets in the Operation menu</string> ``` Like before, you can update your translations either by creating a pull request or by writing a comment here for me to copy-paste the new strings in your file. Don't worry about the August deadline mentioned above, if some translations are missing when I publish this release they will be integrated in the next one. Thank you in advance for your help :-) Best regards

[falzonv]

Hello @Rhapsodizer, @Npepperlinux, @yetanotherfossman, @lianergoist, @odanoburu, @tuch96, @bmivzkrp,

Thank you very much for your updates, they are all integrated!
(directly in commits for PR, for comments it's in my files and I will do a group commit at the end)

Best regards

[comradekingu]

Meant to be on the ball earlier, but #341 is in now. :)

Edit: @falzonv The Android style manual says to use "turn on" for "enable", and "turn off" for "disable".
I faintly remember you didn't want that, but other than the new ones,
I can't find any strings that say one way or the other.
Can put in a PR to fix that if you want.

[falzonv]

Hello @comradekingu,

Thank you for the PR, it's merged :-)

I was not aware about the recommendation to use "turn on/off" instead of "enable/disable" but I indeed prefer the later. Turning on/off feels to me more related to physical things (ex: turn on a light or a device) while enabling/disabling is more about virtual things (ex: enable a setting or a feature).
I would be interested to read the Android's rationale for these suggestions but wasn't able to find the style manual you mentioned (too many false positives when searching for any variant of "android style manual turn on instead enable"), would you have a link?
(For info I plan to publish the release today, but we can change the strings later if needed.)

Best regards

[falzonv]

Hello,

For information the new release v7.6.0 has been published, thank you all for the updates!
(it may take 4 to 8 days before being available in F-Droid)

@ArturAiwasan, @MD-IS, @adiloguz: when you have some time, could you please update your translations?

Best regards.