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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Packaging of kde-i18n (was: Re: kde-i18n-* packages on SuSE 7.3Packa)
From:       Erik =?iso-8859-1?q?Kj=E6r=20Pedersen?= <erik () binghamton ! edu>
Date:       2001-11-02 11:14:00
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torsdag 01 november 2001 16:14 skrev Hans Petter Bieker:
> Would it make sense to ship the .desktop files in US english only,
> and then then merge the translations when you actually install a
> translation?
>
> We would just have a file containing filenames and lines to add for each
> translation. When you uninstall a translation, the line would be removed.

The .desktop-files in suse 7.3 did actually have all the translations, but 
for some reason it does not work, they do not show up in the menus. I had a 
similar problem with redhat 7.2. I solved it eventually by changing the 
language to English. logout/login, and back to Danish again and logout/login, 
and now I do have the menus in Danish, but that trick did not solve the 
problem in suse 7.3.

It does not take much space to have all the translations in the 
.desktop-files and that is indeed what everybody seem to do, but it is of 
course a shame that it does not work anyway in suse 7.3. Having a mechanism 
to update translations for menus other than at new releases would of course 
be nice, but probably complicated given the differences between distributions.

Erik

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