[Feature request]: Put Plexus on Weblate

[lucasmz-dev]

Description

Translating apps manually is a pain. You cannot properly tell when source strings have changed, you can't get notifications for new ones, there's weird rules like using backslashes to use, etc. It is also just inconvenient overall.

Additional context

Weblate provides free hosting for libre apps, Plexus should take advantage of this.

It is very easy to get things going, component setups are automatically detected most of the time, and you can just add stuff easily. Set up a webhook, and now Weblate updates automatically and translators can be notified of any needed changes.

Terms

• This feature is not present in the latest version.
• This is not a duplicate of another feature request.

[StellarSand]

Translating apps manually is a pain

That I can agree upon.

there's weird rules like using backslashes to use

I don't make the rules. Even if Weblate is used, some characters need to be escaped with the backslash and properly encoded, unless Weblate automatically does it somehow.

Weblate provides free hosting for libre apps

I'll look into it. Thanks for the suggestion. 👍

[lucasmz-dev]

I don't make the rules. Even if Weblate is used, some characters need to be escaped with the backslash and properly encoded, unless Weblate automatically does it somehow.

Yes yes, I know and there's probably a valid internal reason for it, but yes, Weblate deals with this. Should've been clearer. For the most part, there's no need to worry about this kind of formatting there. It also warns about a bunch of potentially incorrect translations (like translations missing stuff like %1$s, etc)

Overall it's better for the translators and the maintainer (e.g. you can just change source strings and it will detect when it happens and deal with it appropriately), less worry about collisions, people can work together in an easier way, not have to wait for a merge, etc.

[StellarSand]

Yes sounds convenient and I've seen many other apps using it. Will look into it soon. :)

[lucasmz-dev]

I've set up Weblate for InnerTune, OuterTune, monerujo (kind of, that app is hard to get working...); if you'd like I can help here as well

[StellarSand]

Done: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/plexus-app/

[lucasmz-dev]

btw, if the rest of Plexus, so like the website ever wants to do internalization, this project could be reused. use the reorganize feature and rename it to just e.g. Plexus, then have a category for the app, website, etc.