Setup > News : please hide english text or allow us to translate also the news ...

face

Please can you hide Syncing is ... (please see pic) or allow us to translate also news ?

Thanks

MikeT

Hi face,



We don't plan to hide it, it's a way to know if there's a new article in the News section. I'll check if we have plans to support translations for the News article, which might not happen because there might be a lot of articles coming into the News section and it might not be feasible to get it translated in time.



We'll look into it.



Thanks!

face

I can understand you don't want to hide it and probably it's not a good idea to translate all the multiple news BUT why then not simply show a word or two there announcing there's some news new <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> so that we can simply translate that word or two ?

What do you think about my idea ? <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/emoticon-0137-clapping.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='(clap)' />

MikeT

Hi face,



We could do that, we're looking into it and the other idea is to use a "Updated" badge like we have an error badge already.



In addition, others have suggested that we also sync "unread"/"read" statuses for the news article, so that if you read some news articles on iPhone, it'll be marked as read on the iPad and other devices as well.



Hopefully, we can make that happen.



Thanks!

face

Great ! I love the badge idea but also other idea are good too. Please as soon as you'll decide post here the final solution so we can soon translate (if necessary and it will be the solution) the unique label.

MikeT

Will do.



Thanks!

roustem

I would love to translate the news. It might be difficult however to keep them translated all the time and especially when there is something that needs to be posted right away.



I wonder if we should show something like "News (English only)" or "News (In English)" when the current language is not English?

MikeT

I think that'll help, at least to set the expectations that the News are not likely to be translated in case people waits to see if it'll be translated later.

face

Hi Roustem,

for me it's not a problem to translate in italian all the news that will be available in the future.



BUT i continue to think that in that view controller (see pic shown) it would be better NOT to show anything else, only the actual icon, and text News (in italian Novità).

Probably a simple badge or highlight the text or animate the newspaper icon would be sufficient to advise users that there're some more news to read.



What do you think about that ?

face

Any update on that ?

khad

I think the plan is to not try to translate the news items themselves since it might become overwhelming to manage for all the dozen or so languages. We may experiment with the title of the section to clarify that users should not expect it to be localized (something like "News (English Only)" as Roustem suggested), but we have some bigger issue we need to attend to before we can come back to this I think.



We really appreciate your feedback (and your patience)! <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

face

Solved all the bigger issue ?

Reminder to adjust Setup > News little_issue <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/skype_thinking.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='(think)' />

face

4.1 b2: again, the problem is not solved, why it takes so looooong ?

It's really not nice to continue to see only that part untranslated ...

khad

I don't know that this is going to be changed, but we have already noted your vote for this. Each person only gets one vote in order to be fair to everyone. We are always agile, though, so nothing is set forever. We'll continue to evaluate as we get some more feedback from others on this issue.



Thanks! <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

face

Just a question: why simply NOT show the beginning of the phrase after the word New ?

A simple New without any truncated word should be fine there ... also for native version ...

face

4.1b3: thanks a bunch ! <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

Yannik Achternbosch

One short note about 4.1 Beta 3: I don't like the "In English" text in the german version. Maybe translating the news isn't a good solution either but This text feels wrong (in my opinion). Maybe you could change it to "Englische News" or "Englische Updates" to make it work better with the rest of the UI.

face

You can translate "[i]In English[/i]", it's now avaible (from today) in Crowdin.

As said i love this simple solution ...

roustem

[quote name='Yannik Achternbosch' timestamp='1355652946' post='65565']

One short note about 4.1 Beta 3: I don't like the "In English" text in the german version. Maybe translating the news isn't a good solution either but This text feels wrong (in my opinion). Maybe you could change it to "Englische News" or "Englische Updates" to make it work better with the rest of the UI.

[/quote]



The translation does not have to be exact. Feel free to change it.



Thanks!