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Sunroad · August 21, 2019, 7:58am

I can see the new version of darktable isn’t in the language I want, is it possible to download an older version of the program?
I am a teacher, and most of my students only understand Danish

Tobias · August 21, 2019, 8:31am

What operating system are you using?

You could even help translating darktable to Danish:

github.com

darktable-org/darktable/blob/master/doc/TRANSLATORS.md

# darktable User Interface Translation How-To

darktable's user interface can be translated into many languages. For this, the application uses gettext engine. It works like this: there is a text based editable PO file that contains a number of sequences like: a line in English, a line in target language and a reference to a line in source code where original text in English comes from. The build system then creates a binary version of each PO file with MO file extension and places it in a system directory where a running instance of darktable will pick and use it.

To start working on your translation you need to:

1. Fetch source code, preferably using git. Here is the magic command:

    ```
    git clone git://github.com/darktable-org/darktable.git
    ```

    Copy the checked out source code tree somewhere to work on it or, if you know git well enough, create your own branch and work on it.

2. Build darktable and install it

3. Create a new PO file for your language. For this you will need a package called `intltool` and some PO editor, preferably poedit(formerly known as poEdit).

    ```
    $ cd darktable/po/

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Sunroad · August 21, 2019, 8:43am

I am using mac, but my students will be using both mac and windows.

I am not sure I would be able to follow the instructions you have written, I dont know what you mean by the git, og a P0 file.

I am sure most of my students won’t be able to follow what to do, so the ideal solution for me would really be if my students could somehow instal version 2.4.1 which is the one I have right now, in danish. Is that possible or not?

Tobias · August 21, 2019, 9:59am

I just found the release of the old versions here:
Release darktable 2.4.1 released · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub
I haven’t written the documentation for the translator.

git is the version control system that the darktable developers use:

PO files are the files with the translations:

If creating the PO file is to complicate for you perhaps someone her can provide an actual PO file. Just ask.
Then you just need to translate the text. To make translating easier I would recommitment a tool like Poedit:

After the translation is done, ZIP the file and send it to the developer mailinglist:

Sunroad · August 21, 2019, 10:05am

cool, thank you so much, I dont know if I can create the P0 file, but I can definitely translate