On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>> >Hi!
>> >
>> >Thanks to QApplication::installTranslator, we do have now
>> >the possibility to translate all QObject::tr calls. The
>> >Qt print dialog looks quite nicely now translated to German.
>> >And another nice side effect is, that QAccel translates
>> >menu entries now. Which looks rather professional as German
>> >keyboards don't have Ctrl, but Strg.
>> >
>> >I'm a bit concerned about extracting the pot file from Qt
>> >sources, but I couldn't find an official translation template,
>> >so ran xgettext -ktr -C */*.cpp within Qt and removed some
>> >string we do not need within KDE to not confuse translators
>> >too much (wondered myself what "Scope/Key" could mean :)
>> >
>> >Just to keep those not reading kde-cvs uptodate ;)
>> 
>> You should run findtr on the qt-sources. This is included in qt. You will get
>> then the pot file.
>> 
>But this doesn't help me at all as I need it in gettext format
>(without the scope). It's not the technical part that concerns me,
>but the license/copyright part.

Don't ask me about licenses :-) But seriously, what's the problem?

>And I know what the Scope and the Key is, but how to translate
>"Scope/Key" to german. And I bet, that "pure" translators would
>have a real problem if they're asked to translate it. So I better
>removed qdeveloper.cpp messages.

I don't see a problem with scopes. Just translate

QFileDIalog::Some Message 
to
QFileDIalog::Eine Nachricht

:-) but ok, if this is not compatible with the rest of the KDE messages, I
understand that this is a problem.

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Reggie