LAAS YouTranslate!

YouTranslate!


Description
Features
Dependencies
Screenshots
Download
Install and run
Useful links
Reviews


Current release

1.1.10

Release date

Sep 20,2007
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Youtranslate Some News

Sep 20,2007: YouTranslate! 1.1.10, just some bug fixed
This is just a maintainance release.

Nov 05,2006: The road to 1.2: online the new release 1.1.9
This new release introduce 3 main changes:
1) There are some problems using YouTranslate! in the systray area with Gnome 2.16 (I have the same problem with my new XUbuntu 6.10); so in this release the systray will not be used. If you are using KDE please send me your feedback. If your Window Manager is not Gnome 2.16 and you want to use the systray, please use the previous release (1.1.8)
2) Now you can customize the key used to activate the "Large Translator"
3) "WorldLingo" has being deleted from the available service provider due to the type of technology used in its site.

Jul 19,2006: Finally the release 1.1.8 is online
The most important feature added to this release (requested from many users) is the Large Translator (go to the screenshots for more details), a new Window where you can translate greater text. To open it just activate (focus on it) the textbox of the source language and press F12.


Youtranslate Description

What is YouTranslate! ?
Briefly it's just a small and simple application that lets you use some internet translation services in an easy and fast way. I have developed this software just because every time I need to translate a word (or a phrase) I have to open my internet browser, go to the translation service provider, select source and destination languages, and wait for the response.

With YouTranslate! it's possible to skip many of the previous steps and focus your attention only on what do you want to translate.
In this first stable release, the application supports only 3 translation service provider: Google, BabelFish (AltaVista) and Systran.
Thanks to the internal structure of the application, it will be possible to add other providers in the future.
If you need a different provider inside YouTranslate!, just send me an email with the request.
Finally, let me say that YouTranslate! is freely inspired to GNOME Translate.


Youtranslate Dependencies

So far, to run YouTranslate! on your distro, you need:


README:
If you receive the following error:
Unhandled Exception: System.DllNotFoundException: gdk-x11-2.0
in (wrapper managed-to-native) TrayIcon:gdk_x11_display_get_xdisplay (intptr)
in <0x00043> TrayIcon:OnRealized ()
in <0x00036> Gtk.Widget:realized_cb (IntPtr widget)
please install the following package:

libgtk2.0-dev

On a debian based distribution you can simply run the following command:

apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev


Youtranslate Features

All the features of the application are the same features of the Provider used during translation session. There are 14 languages supported, bi-directional translation and sessione saving when closing the application.


Youtranslate Screenshots

Here you find some screenshots of YouTranslate! in action. First of all, the main window (click to enlarge):

Shot1m

Activate a textbox and press F12, so you can use the new Large Translator:

Shot1large

..then, the Language Selector:

Shot2

...the Translation Service Provider selection:

Shot3

..and finally the application minimized in my system tray area (with the previous release 1.1.8):

Shot4


Youtranslate Download

YouTranslate! is free software, released under the GPL license.

Current release is 1.1.10
It's possible to download YouTranslate! as a deb package created on my system:

youTranslate-1.1.10_all.deb

or directly the exe file in the following archive:

youTranslate_1.1.10_bin.tar.gz

If you want the source code, just download the following archive:

youtranslate-1.1.10_src.tar.gz

Run the Make.sh inside the archive to compile your own copy of YouTranslate!
:: Ubuntu Dapper Drake in the repository http://asher256-repository.tuxfamily.org.
(thanks to Asher256 )

:: Gentoo ebuild at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128628.
(thanks to Martin Klaffenböck )

:: Slack package here
(thanks to Charles (Camp) Lear)


Youtranslate Install and run

If you have downloaded the deb package, login as root and run the following command in a console:

dpkg -i youTranslate-1.1.10_all.deb

You will find the application link in your Utility/Accessories submenu.

WARNING: if the menu item does not launch the application, you have to modify manually the launcher located in your "/usr/bin" directory.
Go there and edit the file youtranslate; the original file seems like this:
#!/bin/sh

# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/--YOUR PATH TO MONO DIR--/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
THE_EXE="/usr/local/youtranslate/youtranslate.exe"
exec mono $THE_EXE

You have to uncomment the line beginning with "export" and replace the green string "--YOUR PATH TO MONO DIR--" with the complete path to your mono directory, for example:

/home/laas/mono-1.1.16/

If you have the archive, just run the following (in a text console):

tar xzvf youTranslate-1.1.10_bin.tar.gz
mono youtranslate.exe

That's all.


Youtranslate Useful links


YouTranslate at GnomeFiles.com:

http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=1336


YouTranslate at Softpedia.com:

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/YouTranslate-11031.shtml


Youtranslate Reviews


"YouTranslate!, how I got it working with me" - Beranger ::: READ IT [English]

"Asher256's Blog" - Asher256 ::: READ IT [French]

"Entorno de acs" - Alvaro's blofg ::: READ IT [Spanish]