* It often duplicates upstream translation effort, wasting a human
work, both community translators and contracted ones.
* Most of these translations are ~20 years old, and they were never
reviewed, so it is possible that they are worse than the upstream
ones. In the last 20 years it did not provide any way to upstream
the changes and translations. The upstream translations got another
20 years of development. Also Desktop Categories specification was
updated, and the upstream specification now covers all aspects of
former X-SuSE-* Categories extensions.
* As a result, the SUSE desktop menu experience differs from other
vendors. Applications have a different name, different translations,
different placement in the structured menu etc.
* Upstream translations have a wider impact.
* Package maintainers have only a limited control over the contents
visible to users. It is imported during the runtime, and the visible
contents could be different from the contents in the package.
* update-desktop-files is a complicated tool. It attempts to fix
deprecated and obsolete stuff in the desktop files without even
informing the developer that something was wrong and something was
modified.
* It uses a very complicated toolchain that requires access to SUSE
intranet and access to OpenQA VPN. The complete toolchain setup was
never published, so it has even problems with Open Source ideas.
* It mixes SUSE-unique translations with translations that just
duplicate the upstream translation effort. As a result it significantly
increases number of strings to translate and decreases the quality of
the translation.
(jsc#PED-14507)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/M17N/ibus-anthy?expand=0&rev=64
