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Twenty-one years ago, I had the honor, together with Sakis Kasampalis, of starting a project to translate into Greek some of the most important articles of the GNU Project, as supporters of the Free Software Foundation.

One of the articles I like the most is The GNU Project, originally written by Richard Stallman in 1984. You can read the Greek translation here.

In my opinion, anyone who uses free software or open-source software should read it at least once. It offers an important historical perspective on how the GNU Project began in 1984 and explains the ideas and principles that shaped the free software movement.

Twenty-one years later, I still feel proud to have contributed, even in a small way, to making these ideas more accessible to Greek-speaking readers.

The Qt framework supports internationalization (I18N) and you can easily use it to your applications with a little effort. So, in this article I’ll show you how you can make it happen in a simple Qt application. The first thing you should do is making the GUI of the application translation-aware. That means setting all the texts you want of your widgets to be translatable. From the Qt Designer you can make translation-aware all your widgets. Here is an image that shows you how you can make the text of a QPushButton instance to be translation-aware :

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The project ‘www-el‘ (formerly ‘elwebtrans’) serves to translate all the important articles, texts (web pages) of the GNU Project in the Greek language. All members of the project ‘www-el‘ are volunteers who contribute their work to spread the GNU Project and the philosophy of the Free Software Foundation in the Greek public. If you have some free time and want to contribute to the defense of liberty and the further dissemination of Free Software, help our project.