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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: using gettext for .desktop translations
From: Jonathan Riddell <jriddell () ubuntu ! com>
Date: 2009-12-11 23:35:58
Message-ID: 20091211233558.GF32356 () muse ! 19inch ! net
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:11:05PM +0100, Burkhard L?ck wrote:
> Am Freitag, 11. Dezember 2009 16:31:01 schrieb Jonathan Riddell:
> > Currently .desktop translations are kept in-file rather than using
> > gettext .po/.mo files as every other translation does. This adds
> > extra complexity to application's translation infrastucture. Although
> > KDE SVN has its own ways of coverting to and back from .po files third
> > party apps don't. It also means distributions can't easily ship
> > updated translations. Both Ubuntu and openSUSE patch KDE and Gnome to
> > make them use translations from gettext instead of .desktop files.
> > Should we consider changing the way these translations are done? I
> > believe the glib maintainers are looking at this too.
> >
> Looking at http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules I see a minor release in 4.x
> every month with bug fixes in the code, updated translations of gui,
> documentation and *.desktop files, all together consistent.
Currently we don't ship those in the on-by-default updates archive
because they contain too many changes to verify. Translation updates
do get shipped.
Jonathan
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