Software >> FreeMind

• Freemind's official site
• FreeMind on Wikipedia

• FreeMind's Pootle page at Locamotion.org

• Customised Google search for FreeMind terminology

FreeMind is a free mind mapping application written in Java. It provides extensive export capabilities. An XHTML export allows a user to create a mapped image with links to a folding outline. It runs on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and other Unixes. Written in Java, requires Java 1.4 to run.

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Samuel busy translating into Afrikaans and researching possible problems.

• Number of strings: 1103
• Number of words: 4035
• Original file format: Java properties

• FreeMind's own wiki (has search function)
• FreeMind's list of frequent questions
• Other mind mappers at Wikipedia
• Other mind mappers on FreeMind's pages
• FreeMind's official forums (useful to join)

1. There are very few useful section headings in the properties files. New strings were simply added to the bottom of the file. Some sections do seem to have been put together, but most of the strings are not in thematic order.

2. Although the Freemind wiki contains useful information, the menu items are not described there. Many of the menu items or program functions are described in the Freemind Help files, which can be accessed if you install Freemind itself. Click the little icecream scoop (or magnifying glass) and do a search.

The Freemind Help files (inside the program) are quite extensive and you can figure out fairly easily what a term means, or how to possibly translate it. A good idea is to download and install FreeMind, so that you can search the Help files.

To convert properties to PO:
python prop2po freemind_old.properties freemind_new.po

To merge translations back:
python po2prop -t freemind_old.properties freemind_new.po freemind_new.properties

The default method of escaping (Unicode entities) and the default character encoding (UTF8) both apply.

Our Wolof translators prefer to translate from French. Luckily the existing French translation of FreeMind is fairly up to date.

To create an EN-FR PO file form the EN.properties and FR.properties: python prop2po --duplicates=msgctxt -t EN.properties FR.properties EN-FR.po

To create a PO file with FR as source: python poswap EN-FR.po FR.po (bug in poswap… it doesn't create a header, so add one from somewhere)

See also: poswap

Already translated into: cs, de, dk, en (default), es, fr, hu, it, ja, kr, lt, nl, no, pl, pt_BR, pt_PT, ru, sl, zh, zh_CN. These are the languages that Decathlon will not translate.

If you want to help translate FreeMind into one of the existing languages, contact the current translator via the FreeMind translators' wiki page.

Please note: Decathlon may or may not contact existing translators of FreeMind to invite them to use Pootle. If you are an existing translator of FreeMind and you want to use Pootle, you're welcomme to let us know.

FreeMind's official localisation guide -- not everything in this guide is relevant to Decathlon translators because Pootle takes care of many of the technical issues described in this guide.