Tag Archives: Ubuntu
The disadvantege of language packs in Ubuntu
I’ve encounterd a bug in launchpad about adding a new gnucash translation to the Hebrew language pack. Nothing out of the ordinary excepts that for every upstream translation update you should file a bug to update the language pack. A … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, i18n & l10n, QA stuff, Ubuntu
Ubuntu’s reportbug-ng sends bug reports to Debian’s BTS
I checked the Debian firefox bugs page and noticed a new bug was reported against firefox. Checking the bug report showed the bug is new as it reported against version 3.0b5. As there’s now firefox package in debian testing/unstable that … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, QA stuff, Ubuntu
What can Debian learn from Fedora about recruiting new people?
I’ve been visiting the fedora website in the last couple of days. One thing caught my interest, and that’s the “join Fedora” link just bellow the “get Fedora” one. I clicked on it and got to this very simple “Join … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora, Openoffice.org
Why does Ubuntu puts Firefox transalation in gnome’s language pack ? (2)
A day after presenting the question, seems like a user got a problem I didn’t thought of. He didn’t like Firefox 3 and decided to install Firefox 2 instead. The problem is that he now has Firefox 2 and the … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
Why does Ubuntu puts Firefox transalation in gnome’s language pack ?
The other day, Tomer from Mozilla Israel contacted me to update me that the Israeli Ubuntu community changes the Firefox translation and doesn’t contribute the changes back. We sorted out the translation process with the Ubuntu people who were very … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
Ubuntu and the lack of Thunderbird Hebrew localization
Almost a year ago Ubuntu uploaded thunderbird-locales for Thunderbird 2.0.0.0. As the Hebrew localization wasn’t ready then, they dropped the hebrew l10n package & files. During the last year Mozilla released more localizations for Thunderbird, but it doesn’t seem Ubuntu … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
