<div dir="ltr">Okay, let me know if I get this right, before I think about how exactly to implement it.<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px">The basic premise of this project idea is to allow a desktop application testing tools/framework to check for consistency of translations across a GUI,</span></blockquote>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px"><br></span></div><div style><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, arial, freesans, clean, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px">So basically, what I understand is that both the translated and the original text would be the inputs, and I need to check for possible errors in the translations as well as the GUI structure.</span></font></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px">coverage as well as whether the translated UI contravenes known UI Guidelines.</span></blockquote><div style>
<br></div><div style>What kind of UI are we talking about here? Is it just the web interface? Or something else?</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Shaumik Daityari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdaityari@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaityari@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com" target="_blank">sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Shaumik Daityari <<a href="mailto:sdaityari@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaityari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hence, I had some doubts regarding the idea.<br>
><br>
> What kind translation would I be using? Will it be in the form HTML DOM<br>
> (which seems the case with Deckard)?<br>
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</div>You seem to have mis-understood the "translation" bit.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Could you explain what exactly I am missing?</div><div class="im"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> Do I need to translate it myself (maybe using an online API) or will I be<br>
> provided both the original and translated text as inputs?<br>
<br>
</div>Upstream projects like GNOME, KDE have translations being contributed<br>
by language communities.<br>
<div><br>
> Should the testing be totally automated, or should it be manual(meaning I<br>
> would display both the interfaces asking the user if everything looks fine)?<br>
<br>
</div>Ideally it should be automated.<br>
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sankarshan mukhopadhyay<br>
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Uttarakhand
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