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Gtranslator is a full featureed graphical environment that makes it possible to translate po files painlessly. This section describes basic usage of Gtranslator.
Starting Gtranslator opens the Main window, shown in . -->
The Main window is divided into three main area:
The menubar allows you the acces the application's menus.
The toolbars allow you quick access to often used file managment, navigation and compile functions.
The workspace allows you to visualize and edit the messages contained in the po file.
Gtranslator's settings can be reached by clicking on the Settings->Preferences+ + + + + + + + menuitem.
To load a po file, use the + + + + ->File+ + + + + + ->Open...+ + + + menuitem. Clicking on Open... will bring up the gtranslator -- open po file dialog box. Browse through your computer's filesystem, choose the po file you whish to open and click OK.
Gtranslator offers you the possibility to open po files using the Gnome-VFS subsystem. This means that you may use URIs to access files on a remote system. Currently supported URIs are:
the file:// URI, as in
file://localhost/path_to_file |
the http:// URI as in
http://www.gtranslator.org/gtranslator/gtranslator.pot |
the ftp:// URI as in
ftp://ftp.somewhere.org/pub/tr.po |
![]() | Opening comressed po files |
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Gtranslator can open compressed po files. Click on the Open icon. This brings up the Open po file dialog box. Choose a compressed po file (can be identified by its .gz extension). Click on OK. If bzip2 is installed on your system, you may open bzip2 compressed files. |
Basics on panes, where to click, message status, basic navigation
Tip on on using the tree view.
Here come the advanced features, autotranslate, regexp search, upadte...
Autotranslate is a nice feature.
Update from source with xml-i18n-tool
Not implemented yet
The toolbar (shown in ) provides access to several commonly used routines.
The file management toolbar lets you access often used file management funcions quickly.
Brings up the Open file dialog dialog.
Saves the po file.
Saves the po file under a different name.
Compiles the po file using msgfmt.
Updates the po file from the sources using the xml-i18n-update from the xml-i18n-tools package.
Brings up the Header dialog box with a form that lets you fill in the fields of the po files header.
Undoes your last action.
Opens the Preferences window.
Exits the application.
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