[Etoys] Translation eToys image

Jecel Assumpcao Jr jecel at merlintec.com
Fri Mar 9 17:21:28 EST 2007


Juliano,
 
>      My name is Juliano Bittencourt and I'm participating of the 
> Brazilian early tests of the XO laptop. We will implement these tests 
> with 400 laptops on a small school in Porto Alegre (South of Brazil). 
> All children and teachers in the school will have their own laptop. In 
> our ideas, Squeak will have an key part in our pedagogical praxis. But 
> we are facing some small problems in the first classes we are doing with 
> children. The main problem is that the eToys image is in english. So I 
> want some orientation of how to translate the etoys image and how to 
> make this work available for others in the project?

Actually Paulo has already translated the user interface in eToys to
Portuguese and his work is included in the Squeak images for OLPC. So
you just have to select a menu option to change this (I don't have it
running here and so can't give you the exact instructions).

A separate issue is that the various projects include texts which for
now are only available in English. It wouldn't be hard to go through
each one replacing the texts but then keeping this new image in sync
with the development one would become increasingly difficult. A smarter
solution is needed.

-- Jecel


More information about the Etoys mailing list