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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Creating localized menus
From:       Thomas Reitelbach <tr () erdfunkstelle ! de>
Date:       2006-12-26 9:11:49
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On Tuesday 26 December 2006 06:11, Subir Pradhanang wrote:
> On 12/26/06, Krzysztof Lichota <krzysiek@lichota.net> wrote:
> > Menu entries are in desktop_*.po files and are merged into .desktop
> > files during KDE release (currently 3.5.6 to be released in January).
>
> Hope our translation gets merged into the next official KDE release as
> we already have the essentials translated :)
>
> > However, there was a script to do this manually floating around. I can
> > try to find it in archives, if you like. But it is kind of hacking your
> > installed KDE :)
>
> Thanks, it would be nice if you could get me the script from the
> archives so that I could test it out locally :)

The attached forwarded mail from Nicolas Goutte might be helpful for you.
It's old (may of 2005) but still valid with regards to the key parts of 
desktop file handling.

Cheers,
Thomas

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On Sunday 15 May 2005 19:27, Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> I'm working on the KDE Programmer's I18N HOWTO.  Could someone explain how
> translation of .desktop files is handled?  For projects in the code
> repository, it looks like makemessages (aka scripty) extracts certain
> strings from .desktop files, creating desktop_mmmm.pot file, where mmmm is
> the module name, in templates folder.  Translators translate and create
> desktop_mmmm.po file in each language's messages folder.  How do the
> translated strings get inserted back into .desktop files?  makemessages?

Yes, "re-injecting" the strings is done automatically by a call from 
makemessages to:

make -f kde-i18n/Makefile.am.in desktops

which calls

kde-i18n/apply.cc

>
> What strings does makemessages extract?  I've looked at makemessages and
> can't figure it out.  I know that it extracts Name, Comment, and
> GenericName.  Any others?

The extraction is done by 

make -f kde-i18n/Makefile.am.in desktop

(Note: there is "desktop" (singular) for the extraction and 
"desktops" (plural) for the re-injection.

For the list of tags, the easiest is to look at:

kde-i18n/apply.cc

At the bottom of the file, you can see all the checkTag calls

>
> How would a programmer handle .desktop files if the project is independent,
> i.e., not in the code repository?

No idea.

>
> Thanks

Have a nice day!


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