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dkgv / pinpoint

Keystroke launcher and personal command central. Alternative to Spotlight and Alfred for Windows. Alternative to Wox, PowerToys.
https://usepinpoint.com
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Localization Support #150

Open Tanimodori opened 2 years ago

Tanimodori commented 2 years ago

It would be better to have localization support :)

dkgv commented 2 years ago

I really like the idea but without an active community of contributors it is an overwhelming task to get going, let alone maintain :(

Tanimodori commented 2 years ago

I understand how much work has to be done to support i18n, but it does not mean that you have to do it at once. You can do it step by step:

  1. Extract all UI text to a resource file, that would be the English language. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/localization for more info.
  2. Provide a language switch in application.
  3. Now if someone wants to translate this application into another language, they can send prs to push translated resource file in their language.

Adding i18n support will expand the user community which means more ideas and contributors. This is kind of a deadlock but you can change this by take a small step forward :)

dkgv commented 2 years ago

I will leave this issue open in case someone wants to help out 🤞 It is however outside the scope of time I can dedicate to the project.