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Pootle Offline

This page collects ideas on using Pootle as an offline editor, in other words, an editor that works standalone on a single computer. See off-line translation editor specifications for the specifications of the GUI toolkit based offline editor.

Pootle already works as an offline editor if invoked with the --startbrowser option. With some work we could change Pootle to easily run on a local machine and provide an experience similar to that of using a local application. The benefit would be that very little work should be required to make an offline editor, and to maintain it. (All improvements to Pootle immediately applies to our “offline editor” and any improvements to editing in general for the “offline editor” become available for the online Pootle editor.)

Advantages

This will have a lot of advantages for us:

Disadvantages

Required

For offline editing, we need to enable Pootle to run in a different mode than the normal server mode. This is already supported by the --startbrowser option. This will allow file editing, but not admin options, etc. This way it still operates similarly to the way it does now, but is only available to a browser on the local system.

Things to disable for offline use

Things to add for offline use

Things that are shared