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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: X-KDE-Submenu entries in .desktop files not translatable?
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-05-30 8:29:15
Message-ID: 200505301029.16044.faure () kde ! org
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On Saturday 28 May 2005 12:25, Stephan Johach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> One of our translators recently found some untranslated menu entries in 
> konqueror. As we can not find the corresponding strings in our german
> .po files we suspect other teams should see this also.
> 
> Open konqueror (file view), and right click on a .png or .jpg file.
> 
> Now select your translation of "Actions".
> 
> In the german translation there are three untranslated submenues:
> 
> "Convert To"
> "Set As Background"
> "Transform Image"
> 
> Seems to me there is something wrong with the corresponding 
> .desktop-files. For example
> 
> /kdebase/kdesktop/kdesktopSetAsBackground.desktop
> 
> shows the english text but no translation of it:
> 
> ............................................................
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> ServiceTypes=image/*
> Actions=setAsBackground;tileAsBackground;
> X-KDE-Submenu=Set as Background
> 
> [Desktop Action setAsBackground]
> Name=Centered

Oh. Aaron used a non-standard (i18n-wise) name for a translatable string, this needs to be fixed.
Aaron: how about we change that to
X-KDE-Submenu=true
Comment=Set as Background
for instance? (of course with keeping support for the old way in the sources...).

Really translating X-KDE-Submenu requires some changes in the l10n code, and
might lead to errors (translators know that in Comment=Foo they don't have to
translate the "Comment" part, but "X-KDE-Submenu" might be tempting ;-).
I think we usually try to reuse existing ready-for-translation keys...

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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