gvSIG-Desktop 1.12. User manual

gvSIG has support for showing the application's text based on a language selection, that by default it is usually the same as for the operating system but that the user may change through the language preferences panel.

Translations to new languages have been added to every new released version of gvSIG, especially thanks to the support of the community and the translators involved.

However, to add a ne language, make corrections or finish the translation of one of the languages available, it has been necessary to wait to the release of the new version of gvSIG.

However, to add a new language, make corrections or finish the translation of one of the languages available, it has been necessary to wait to the release of the new version of gvSIG.

The translation manager extension will allow gvSIG users to append translations to new languages and updates to the existing ones over a version already installed with the application, without having to reinstall it. This way, there will be the possibility to publish translations to new languages from within gvSIG, without having to wait for the following gvSIG version.

Furthermore, the extension will let any gvSIG user to update or translate to a new language the application chains and will allow checking the result over the application itself without having to resort to a programmer.

Upon installing the translation manager extension, the language selection panel will be replaced by a new preference panel in which besides being able to select the application language, there will be a series of buttons to perform the language translation.

With the new translation manager, the extension adds the option to distinguish the translations, not only by language but by country and other variants as well. This is due to the fact that for some languages there are differences between countries (e.g. English from United Kingdom vs. United States) and even variants within the same country (e.g. Norwegian Nynorsk alongside Riksmål).

The following figure shows the translation manager panel with the language preference panel:

Language Preference Panel

The panel shows upon selecting the option Idioma (1), from within the General section of the gvSIG preferences. A table with the list of available translations to languages will show in the upper part inside the panel. The columns that show in the table are:

• Idioma (2): name of the language in its own language to facilitate its identification.
• País (3): language country
• Variante (4): language variant.
• Activar (5): selected language in which the application chains will be shown.

In the lower part of the table there are a number of buttons that allow managing the application translations. The task of those buttons, in general will be applied to the language selected in the table (6), selecting over the row of the table of the language that will be used.

The function of those buttons is as follow:

• Instalar (7): install or update a language translation.
• Desinstalar (8): uninstall a language translation.
• Actualizar (9): export the translation to a language to update it.
• Traducir (10): export to translate to a new language.