Man on a mission, an italian mission

Localisation
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Since when i started using Sailfish OS, back in the Jolla Phone 1 days, i wanted the system to be more popular, and i thought a crucial thing to be addressed was localization, especially for apps in the ecosystem

so i decided to be a man on a mission, the mission to make Sailfish as italian as possible, and i started translating apps, then 1 app became 2, 2 became 3, 3 became 4 and so on

I’m not a coder myself and i wanted a way to contribute back to the community, so i thought translations were a great way to give something back, and especially, to make the system more usable to people who didn’t know english (or know it poorly)

I can’t say i’m accepting requests but if you have something to propose me you are very welcomed to do so :slight_smile:

As of now these are (roughly) the apps i translated, in alphabetical order

01 36 Questions

02 Amazfish - Hasn’t been released yet

This has been translated while listening to “Feelings Are Good” and “A Model Life” from the man himself, Lonely Robot, “Dreams” from Indigo, “Lake Street” from Wolfclub, “Gravity” from The Dangerous Summer and “American Football LP2” from American Football

03 Battery Buddy - hasn’t been released yet

04 Chum GUI - made this with a little bit of help from Olf

05 Clockwork - this was never released unfortunately, i tried reaching the author, but seems mia; still, it’s there ready to be published

06 Cogs - available on chum

07 Daily Comics

08 Discourser

09 Dreamfish Now

10 Exawake

11 Fast chess - hasn’t been released yet

This has been translated while listening to “The Big Dream” and “Feelings Are Good” from Lonely Robot

12 Fernschreiber - didn’t start the translation but took over the duties and still mantaining it

13 Fernweh

14 FileCase - didn’t start the translation but took over the duties and still mantaining it

15 File Browser

16 FlowPlayer - didn’t start the translation but took over the duties and still mantaining it

17 Immich

this has been translated listening to “Tejano Punk Boyz” from Giovannie and The Hired Guns, “Ramon Ayala” from Giovannie and The Hired Guns and Bo Bundy, “Miami Nice” from Lifelike, “We Are Not An Island” from Vib Gyor, and “Earthrage” from W.E.T.

18 Install History - available in chum

19 J2 Enjoyer

20 Jockr - very old and now abandoned

21 Microtube

22 Movie Sailor

23 Musikilo

24 Nanofiles

25 Opal Project

26 SailPipe

27 Patchmanager - hasn’t been released yet

this has been translated listening to “Gravity” from The Dangerous Summer” and “Reach For The Stars” Synthwave Cover from the Sonic Colours OST

28 Pico Player

29 Plants - available in harbour - hasn’t been released yet

this has been translated listening to “Выше” from Илья Орлов

30 Prostogram - very old and now abandoned

31 Quickddit - didn’t start the translation but took over the duties and mantaining it - hasn’t been released yet

this has been translated listening to “Under Stars” from Lonely Robot

32 SailCord

33 Sailmich - hasn’t been released yet

this has been translated listening to “Rise Up” from W.E.T.

34 SailSeries - available in harbour - hasn’t been released yet

this has been translated while listening to, yes, you guessed it, the man himself, the god of modern prog, “The Big Dream” from Lonely Robot

35 Sailtrix

36 Screencast

37 SeaChest

38 Septitrac

39 SFOS Forum Viewer

40 SShazam

41 Storeman - didn’t start this one, just took over the duties - hasn’t been released yet

42 Tidings

43 Tooter β

this has been translated listening to “Please Come Home” from Lonely Robot

44 Whisperfish - didn’t start this one, just took over the duties - hasn’t been released yet

this has been translated listening to “Under Stars” and “The Big Dream” from Lonely Robot

45 Yottagram

i will update the post accordingly on what i’m working on at the moment

Next in line is Patchmanager

Any suggestion for next one? :slight_smile:

Let me thank @frankps which gave me the inspiration to start this post, localization is very important and it’s thanks to people like him if we can all enjoy using the system we love

I would also say, help us helping you, if you are not a coder but know the language and have some free time, whatever language you speak, join on board and translate, you will help even more people enjoy Sailfish OS

Un grazie anche a quelli che hanno tradotto le applicazioni in italiano prima che potessi metterci mano io, consentendomi così di fare altro :slight_smile:

Ciao

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Hi my friend, first of all I really liked your opening title. The way you did it felt like it’s finally time to raise our sails and set out on the journey. As a translator, I’d also like to step up and do my part at this time. I know very little coding, but I can do it — I believe in myself. And your final words were truly very valuable as well. Yesterday I went a bit into Jolla’s past, and there too there was a beautiful saying: the community saved us =)

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Hard and valuable work you have done. If you have time my app Fast Chess is not yet having Italian translation. I accept translations in Transifex, Github pull requests or by email attachment

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Thank you for kind words!

My goal is simple: Make good, native apps available in native language for all the new users coming to our platform.

It is as simple as that…

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Beautiful initiative! For Whisperfish, the last translation contribution was 2 years, 10 months ago. We could use some refreshing, since the current Italian translation is at 74% complete. 646 words would want some attention.

Up to you to decide whether to take it up, of course. If you decide to do that: gracie mille! I’ll let you know next time I’m in Italy, and I’ll buy you a beer vino rosso :slight_smile:

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I know nothing about chess but i suppose i don’t need to know about if i just need to translate the app :slight_smile:

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Exactly same goal i had when i started :slight_smile:

Wish i contributed more but i also translated things not on sailfish (looking at you vivaldi)…

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Just yesterday i had a look at whisperfish github, but i saw an italian ts file so i thought it was already done

Anyway i will happily make it my next project for when i will finish the other three that are in line :slight_smile:

Just a quick reminder that i don’t use signal, so the translation may be not 100% accurate as i’m not seeing in ui what i’m translating :slight_smile:

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In my ts file there might also be some Italian looking translations I tried to do with Googl 10 years ago when I did not understand my abilities. Feel free to tear them down.

Currently understanding well better what native translation can do.

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If you have questions about context, I’ll be very happy to answer them, and to clarify the translation descriptions! Thanks for considering Whisperfish in the list. And if you want to start using Signal, I’ll be happy to be your first contact!

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Thank you for translating the Immich application to Italian language, I would always love to see more people as passionate as you! :slightly_smiling_face:

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my transifex username is 247, would you please add me to your organization?

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try to guess who just entered the list…

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W00t, 100% translated :partying_face:
Italian is now one of five complete translations. Your name will appear automatically in the About page on the next release :slight_smile:
Thank you!!

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Thank you for the fast translation. It is already integrated to my local code and will be included to the next version 0.9.9.

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