Add-on Translation Guide

From Pray Times

This is a quick guide on how to translate Pray Times! Firefox add-on.

Contents 1 Preparing Environment 1.1 Copy files 1.2 Make a new Firefox profile 1.3 Install Pray Times! 1.4 Choose Locale 2 Translation 2.1 Prepare files 2.2 Start Translation 2.3 View changes 3 Submit Your Translation

Preparing Environment

Copy files

Download the addon zip file and extract it in a directory on your local drive. We refer to this directory as [addon-dir] in the following.

Make a new Firefox profile

Use the following steps to create a new Firefox profile for the translation work (it is assumed that your operating system is Windows):

• Open [addon-dir]/dev folder
• Double-click on my-firefox.bat
• The Firefox profile dialog appears. Click on 'Create Profile..'
  • Skip the first page of the wizard.
  • In the second page, change profile name to 'praytimes' and press on 'Choose Folder...' to set a folder for the profile. Choose a folder in a safe place on your local drive. We call this folder [profile-dir].
• Press Finish on the dialog box and then press 'Exit'.

The praytimes Firefox profile is now created. You can double-click on my-firefox.bat to open Firefox with this new profile.

Install Pray Times!

To add Pray Times to the newly created Firefox profile, do the following steps:

• Copy a file named azan-times@hamid.net from [addon-dir]/dev to [profile-dir]/extensions.
• Open the file using notepad and replace its first list with [addon-dir].
• Close your Firefox and reopen it using my-firefox.bat.

Choose Locale

If you are using a localized version of Firefox (instead of the English one), then skip this step. Otherwise, do the following:

• Install Quick Locale Switcher add-on onto your browser.
• From the addon options menu, change the browser default language to your own language.

Translation

The translation process is pretty easy. You only need to translate expressions in two files.

Prepare files

• Open [addon-dir]/chrome/chrome/locale.
• Make a copy of the folder en-US and rename it to your language id. (You may find your language id using Quick Locale Switcher add-on.)

Start Translation

• Open [addon-dir]/chrome/chrome/locale/[your-language-id].
• Open the two files praytimes.dtd and common.properties using a text editor like notepad. (Note: your editor should be able to store files in UTF-8 format.)
• Start translating expressions in the above two files.

View changes

The changes you make to dialogue windows (including Options, About, and Comments dialogues) can be viewed immediately. Changes to the main menu and the display panel in the status bar needs a browser restart (you can use this add-on to reload all chromes without restart).

Submit Your Translation

After your translation is complete, please send the two files praytimes.dtd and common.properties to the developer.