Welsh desktop Linux project is making slow progress
A project that started in 2003 to translate a Linux desktop environment into Welsh is expected to take another two years to complete, according to project co-ordinator Kevin Donnelly.
The translation project, known as Kywaith Kyfieithu, aims to translate the whole of KDE into Welsh, but Donnelly admitted on Friday that the project is making slow progress.
"We've been plodding along on KDE since March 2003, but those KDE hackers keep making KDE ever bigger, so we're running to stand still," said Donnelly. "I think it will be a couple of years yet before we have a full KDE desktop in Welsh"
As KDE developers are constantly adding new applications and features, the number of textual items in the desktop environment that need to be translated is constantly increasing.
