Comments on: Fennec Desktop Localization

By: John Ford

John Ford — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:02:42 +0000

Hi Jeetendra,

To build Fennec for desktop on Windows we use the Mozconfig in the mercurial repository at http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs under the directory mozilla2/win32/mobile-desktop/nightly/mozconfig

Here is a direct link to the current one: http://is.gd/38uPu

Remeber to check out http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser to a mobile subdirectory of your main mozilla-central or mozilla-1.9.2 clone.

By: Jeetendra Bhattad

Jeetendra Bhattad — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:03:11 +0000

Hi John,
Great work. Could you please share the .mozconfig file that you used for building fennec for Win32.

Thanks.

By: Axel Hecht

Axel Hecht — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:40:31 +0000

For intermingled text of other languages, l10n-merge can do that if you don’t prune the merge directory yourself. I’m not doing that automatically within compare-locales as removing directory trees is dangerous. The build automation should do that, though. And yeah, profile strings stick.

Regarding the cursor, jmaher just helped me on that. Go to about:config, and flip browser.ui.cursor to true, and restart. http://mxr.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/source/app/mobile.js#44 has the code.

I wonder if this is a pref that we should pick up from configure and disable for the desktop builds via the build.

By: John H. Ford

John H. Ford — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:15:26 +0000

thanks for the comments everyone

Willy, that makes lots of sense! Spanish was the first l10n build I tried out.

Dan, as I understand, that is desired behaviour on device as your finger is the cursor. For desktop builds, i am guessing that this is a nit that will be corrected as fennec matures.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:57:22 +0000

My cursor disappears when it's over the Fennec window for me on Linux. Good job though, it means a lot of features can be tested without the need for a mobile device!

By: willyaranda

willyaranda — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:49:19 +0000

I think you are having a Spanish text because that Folder is created the first time you use Fennec. If you created a profile with a es-ES build, you will get that name when using different l10n builds.

Try to create a new profile with a different language and you should get the correct string

Nice work!

By: Mark Finkle

Mark Finkle — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:40:02 +0000

Great job, John