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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Renames in l10n-kde4/.../kdelibs
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-07-09 12:48:29
Message-ID: 200707091448.30651.coolo () kde ! org
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Am Sonntag 08 Juli 2007 schrieb Thomas Reitelbach:
> Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 13:05:26 schrieb Chusslove Illich:
> > Upon release of KDE4, it is expected that kdelibs of KDE4 and of KDE3 are
> > able to live side by side on the system. Regarding translations, this
> > means that some KDE4 kdelibs POs need to be renamed in order not to
> > overwrite those from KDE3 kdelibs.
>
> Are you sure that this change is really necessary? What problems do you see
> exactly?
>
> SuSE for example stores KDE 3 PO-Files in
> /opt/kde3/share/locale
> and for KDE 4 in
> /opt/kde4/share/locale
No, SUSE stores them in /usr/share/local and will have the problem with 
KDE5 :)
>
> So there should not be any conflicts. I don't see any reason why other
> distros should handle it different. I believe that all distros that deliver
Because other distros followed the FHS earlier.
> KDE3 and 4 will keep those files at different places and not all in
> /usr/share/locale or whatever.
> How was this handled with the first release of KDE 3.0?
It was silently ignored. Either leaving KDE2 or KDE3 untranslated or creating 
incomplete translations for either.

Greetings, Stephan

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