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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: please add te to subdirs file
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2007-04-13 11:34:13
Message-ID: 200704131334.13773.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Friday 13 April 2007, vijay kamuju wrote:
> On 4/12/07, Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg@snafu.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 April 2007, vijay kamuju wrote:
> > > On 4/12/07, Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg@snafu.de> wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 12 April 2007, vijay kamuju wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you explain how the 3.5.x new language addition to kde release
> > > > > work? A fiend of me is doing the kde 3.5.x translation to Telugu as
> > > > > a college project. He needs to show something.
> > > > > The KDE start menu is not getting shown in Telugu, even though we
> > > > >
> > > > > translated desktop_kdelibs.po and desktop_kdebase.po
> > > >
> > > > For .desktop file, the translation is a little different than for a
> > > > program.
> > > >
> > > > In short the .dektop file itself has the translation. When you have
> > > > Scripty support for your language, the .desktop files get that
> > > > translation. Outside Scripty, it has to be added by another way. (If
> > > > I remember well, there is no out-of-the--box tool for KDE to do
> > > > that.)
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Does this mean I need to modify all the .desktop files lying the svn ;)
> >
> > No, you cannot do that. Scripty re-generates the translations of .desktop
> > files at each Scripty run.
> >
> > Now that branches/stale/l10n/subdirs has a "te" entry, the .desktop files
> > will get translation for Telugu and will even be released that way, even
> > if there would not be an official release of Telugu in the next KDE
> > 3.5.x.
> >
> > What I mean with "outside Scripty" is the case where you want to show the
> > new translation in an existing distribution.
>
> Hi,
> Can you please tell me how to do that "outside Scripty" thing for
> existing distribution?
> May be I can think of writing a tool.
> Thanks,
> VJ

Well, a .desktop file has many key-value pairs like

Name=foo

That is the untranslated version.

For translation, you must create an entry with the key in the corresponding 
language:

Name[te]=foo translated

(For other basic information about .desktop files, you can also look at the 
specification: 
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications_2fdesktop_2dentry_2dspec )


If you want to look at Scripty's scripts in branches/stable/l10n,
you will find the script find_files which tries to find all kind of .desktop 
files in KDE. (I think that this is the hardest part).

The merge of the translation into the .desktop files is done by the script 
merge_desktop_files.sh which uses the program compiled out of the file 
apply.cc

Note that for KDE4, there are a few changes compared to KDE3, due to the use 
of the context for keys. The script apply.cc is now called applycontext.cpp 
(but the compiled code is still named simply apply, due to the compiled 
translations). For understanding the code, you need to now that in compiled 
translation Gettext use the control character 4 (also known as Control-D) to 
separate the context (msgctxt) from the text (msgid). So it is quite similar 
to what we did with the = sign in KDE3.

>

Have a nice day!

> > > Thanks,
> > > VJ
> > >
> > > > > Other apps like games, kate, konsole are showing the translations
> > > > > perfectly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > VJ
> > > >
> > > > Have a nice day!
> >
> > Have a nice day!
> >
> > > > > On 4/12/07, Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org> wrote:
> > > > > > Am Mittwoch 11 April 2007 schrieb Nicolas Goutte:
> > > > > > > On Wednesday 11 April 2007, vijay kamuju wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On 4/10/07, Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg@snafu.de> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 10 April 2007, vijay kamuju wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > Can you please also add the same for
> > > > > > > > > > branches/stable/l10n?
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > In theory that should be the task of Stephan Kulow, as he
> > > > > > > > > is the release maintainer of KDE 3.5.x.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I have just noticed that that is only half the truth. So I will
> > > > > > > add te to branches/stable/l10n/subdirs but that does not mean
> > > > > > > that Telugu will be released.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Correct, 3.5.x is made independently of the subdirs file.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Greetings, Stephan


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