From kde-i18n-doc  Mon Apr 10 14:26:21 2006
From: Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:26:21 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: How to test localized KDE?
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All of those should be .desktop files too.

Have a nice day!

On Monday 10 April 2006 16:19, Stephen Holt wrote:
> OK, almost everything is fine with this now - I've downloaded KDE
> 3.5.2,  which already contains the relevant strings for Kinyarwanda in
> the .directory files (including the Toys menu etc.) However, there are
> a few things left in the menu system that are not yet translated,
> including the 'System Menu' submenu of the main menu, the names of most
> of the system tools (Time and Date etc.) and a large number of the
> actual package names.
>
> Any advice on how to get translated versions of these into my system?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve.
>
> --- Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org> wrote:
> > A Dijous 30 Març 2006 14:56, Stephen Holt va escriure:
> > > OK, thanks. I now have some things up and running in Kinyarwanda.
> > > However, there are still large parts coming up in English, even for
> > > things which are apparently transated.
> > >
> > > As an example, there's a submenu of the main KDE menu called
> >
> > "Toys".
> >
> > > Searching for this in l10n/templates, I found an entry in
> > > kdebase/desktop_kdebase.po with msgid "msgid "Name=Toys". My
> > > Kinyarwanda po file translates this accordingly with msgstr
> > > "Name=Ibikinisho". There is no other instance of the word 'Toys' in
> >
> > any
> >
> > > of the other files in l10n/templates. But the actual menu itself
> >
> > still
> >
> > > says 'Toys'. Any ideas why that might be?
> >
> > As Burkhard says, you need that translation to be on the
> > respective .desktop/.directory (i don't rembeber exactly) file. BUT
> > you don't
> > have to modify the files at hand, there is a script that is run each
> > night in
> > the KDE server that grabs the translations from the .po files and
> > puts them
> > in the correct files.
> >
> > Did i explain myself?
> >
> > Albert
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Steve.
> > >
> > > --- David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:44, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> > > > > Stephen Holt <steverwanda@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> > > > > > I'm now having trouble actually getting this up and running
> >
> > on
> >
> > > > > > Ubuntu Breezy Badger. I've converted all the po files into mo
> > > >
> > > > using
> > > >
> > > > > > msgfmt, put them in /usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES (loose
> > > >
> > > > though -
> > > >
> > > > > > should the mo files stay in the same directory structure?)
> >
> > and
> >
> > > > then
> > > >
> > > > > > put lines
> > > > > > LANGUAGE="rw"
> > > > > > LANG=rw
> > > > > > into the /etc/environment file. KDE is still coming up in
> >
> > English
> >
> > > > > > though.
> > > >
> > > > KDE uses the KDE_LANG environment variable (as a way to override
> > > > what's set in KControl).
> > > >
> > > > > last but not least, it lacks the pango feature where when one
> >
> > glyph
> >
> > > > is
> > > >
> > > > > not in a font, pango lookups it in fallback fonts.
> > > >
> > > > Qt attempts to do that too.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > 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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