
      A few informations on how to create a translation file (.po) 
                            for your language.

It's really not much of a problem.Just take a *.po file of your choice
out of the gnometoaster distrib archive's /po directory.
Overwrite the lines headed by "msgstr" with the appropriate 
translation of the English messages in the lines headed by "msgid".
Sounds complicated ? Take a look at the file and everything will become clear.

The file begins with some header informations. Please fill out the fields of
the header with the appropriate informations. This helps maintaining those
files.

Once you're done,you should rename the file to your language identifier.
This is de for German,it for Italian etc. and give it the suffix .po again.
Send this file to A.Eckleder@bigfoot.com

To test your translation,you can add your file to the ALL_LINGUAS line
in the configure.in file of the gnometoaster archive's main directory.
To actually make gnometoaster use your language,
type:

#autoconf
#./configure
#make
#make install

This assumes that you have already set up your system in General to use
programs available in your language.
If this is not the case,
the trick is to set the environment variable LC_ALL to your language 
identifier string.
this can be done manually with "export LC_ALL="identifier" before 
you invoke gtoaster,
but you can also add this command to ~/.bash_rc if you're using bash,or,
if you're using gdm/xdm/other X login programs by adding this command to
your /etc/environment file.

Have fun!
Andy




