Texts are not translated consistently

meisenzahl commented 3 years ago

What Happened

I just noticed that certain texts are not translated consistently across projects. I have summarized this here below once for the accent colors in German as an example.

English	German (`io.elementary.onboarding`)	German (`switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell`)	German (https://elementary.io/de/brand)
Blueberry	Heidelbeere	Blaubeere	Heidelbeer
Mint	Minze	Mintgrün	Mint
Lime	Gelbgrün	Lindgrün	Limette
Banana	Banane	Banane	Banane
Orange	Orange	Orange	Orange
Strawberry	Erdbeere	Erdbeere	Erdbeere
Pink	Rosa	Rosa	Bubblegum
Grape	Weinrot	Violett	Weintraube
Cocoa	Kakao	Kakao	Kakao
Slate	Schiefer	Schiefer	Schiefer

Expected Behavior

I would expect that especially such prominent texts would be translated consistently.

Steps to Reproduce

Change your language to German
Run io.elementary.onboarding
Run switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell
Open https://elementary.io/de/brand in your browser

Idea

Is it possible to link exactly the same texts across projects in Weblate so that they only need to be translated once?

tintou commented 3 years ago

It is not possible to do it, you can make it easier though by:

translating all the occurrences for good by using the right query (ex: https://l10n.elementary.io/search/?offset=1&q=+source%3ABlueberry++is%3Atranslated+AND+language%3Ade&sort_by=-priority%2Cposition&checksum= )
using a German glossary that checks that the right translation is used and suggested to new strings (though Glossary support has been massively improved with Weblate 4.5)

meisenzahl commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the explanation! I have suggested the translations in Weblate consistently.

I have not worked with Weblate before. @ryonakano do you have any idea who I need to contact from the German translators so we can consistently translate the texts?

ryonakano commented 3 years ago

@meisenzahl I added you to the German Translators group in weblate, so you should be able to approve suggestions you added.

elementary / weblate