From kde-i18n-doc  Thu Dec 11 19:34:33 2008
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:34:33 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Places names in kfile dialog untranslated?
Message-Id: <200812112034.33635.aacid () kde ! org>
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A Dijous 11 Desembre 2008, Thomas Reitelbach va escriure:
> Am Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2008 00:22:22 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > A Dimecres 10 Desembre 2008, Burkhard Lück va escriure:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > in the german team we noticed that in recent trunk the names of the
> > > Places ("Home", "Network", "Root", Trash") in the kfile dialog are
> > > untranslated, this was ok in 4.1.
> > >
> > > Can anyone please check this with an another language?
> >
> > Ok, dugg more on it, it's not a bug but a feature :D
> >
> > Places names can be edited, so they are stored and later restored, except
> > the first time that they are created. If you ran kde untranslated they
> > will never ever again appear translated, remove
> > .kde/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml to "clear" it.
> >
> > I can see how this sucks when changing languages et al, but i can't see
> > how to fix it keeping the feature of being able to edit them.
>
> This is not a very useful feature.
> It will make it impossible to use KDE with different languages, say in a
> kiosk situation. I juste changed the language from german to US-English,
> but the location-names stay german, while the rest of the desktop is
> displayed in english :(
>
> I really believe this should be treated as a bug, not a feature. Or at
> least a „buggy feature“ ;-)

Open a bug report about it or mail Kevin Ottens or David Faure directly about 
it. It's out of my scope here :D

Albert

P.S: You can find their mails at 
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kde-common/accounts?view=markup

>
> Cheers
> Thomas