Using Gtranslator

Gtranslator is a full featureed graphical environment that makes it possible to translate po files painlessly. This section describes basic usage of Gtranslator.

Basic usage

Starting Gtranslator opens the Main window, shown in Figure 1. -->

The Main window is divided into three main area:

  • The menubar — allows you the acces the application's menus.

  • The toolbars — allow you quick access to often used file managment, navigation and compile functions.

  • The workspace — allows you to visualize and edit the messages contained in the po file.

Advanced features

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Toolbar

The toolbar (shown in Figure 2) provides access to several commonly used routines.

Menus

The menu bar, located at the top of the Main Window, contains the following menus:

File

This menu contains:

Edit

This menu contains:

View

This menu contains:

Message state

This menu contains:

Settings

This menu contains:

Help

This menu contains:

  • Gtranslator Manual — This opens the GNOME Help Browser (or Nautilus) and displays this manual.

  • About — This opens the About dialog which shows basic information about Gtranslator, such as the author's name, the application version number, and the URL for the application's Web page.

  • The Gtranslator webpage — This opens the Gtranslator's webpage.

Available commandline options

Gtranslator understands a number of command line options: