Is there anything specific that you like about these tools?

The system Ubuntu uses for translations is excellent, it’s the only system that has gotten me into doing some translations for open source projects, simply because it’s so easy, friendly and most importantly; approachable. Don’t know if you can use it stand alone, since it’s part of launchpad, but just thought i’d contribute my 3 cents

I think both options should be available. I am not keen on the current system. The best online translation system I have used is the one run by http://www.utorrent.com

Please take a look at their system and see how they use it. It is very easy to use.

Seanán

We’ve taken a close look at all of the web-based translation tools mentioned in this thread. Unfortunately, none of them would be easy to integrate with the way we package translations. Unlike most applications, we allow users to continue to update the translations for versions of Songbird which have already been released. This means we have to track what versions of Songbird each string is used in and generate and package language updates when any translation is updated. We also wanted to ensure that people could log into the application with their existing Songbird user account.

We understand that most translators don’t want to learn yet another translation tool and we’re trying to make our process similar to the direction that Mozilla is taking with Verbatim. For translators who prefer working offline, we plan on providing .po files which can we used in the editor of your choice.

Some other features include:
* Automatically importing the Firefox/XULRunner translations provided by Mozilla.
* The ability to preview a translation with a one click install of an XPI.
* Search on strings and keys.

Note that “localize” is not just translate, it’s adapt a product to a specific group of people.

Please, cancel all this languages.. Many languages are close to be the same. I propose to support just a Language (for example Spanish (Neutral)) and drop all the spanish-co, spanish-es, spanish-ar, spanish-mx.. Etc..

Maybe like Ubuntu does (just one Spanish), or maybe like Mozilla does.. They only have ES-es and ES-ar, one for Spanish from Spain and another for Latinamerican Spanish, because these two have a lot of differences.

One other thing, it’s stupid to be notice everyday of a translation update.
This should be off.
I already translate using PO on launchpad and it’s great
For some other I use QTLinguist (local)

Pootle is PO-based (it supports XLIFF too), and with the Translate Toolkit you have different converters for translation file formats.

Pootle can also work with VCS’s (cvs, svn, git, hg, bazaar, …), so if you plan to provide a PO file from the repositories, you can link that with Pootle and let localizers use the way that better fits their needs.