From kde-i18n-doc  Sat Nov 02 19:36:47 2013
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:36:47 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: GNOME appdata files translation
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El Dissabte, 2 de novembre de 2013, a les 10:55:54, Yuri Chornoivan va 
escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> GNOME developers proclaim their goal to add appdata files [1] to every
> package and to hide for GNOME users every package without such files in 1
> year (GNOME 3.14).
> 
> So far, even Fedora/KDE package manager (Apper) cannot show appdata by
> default (should be recompiled with a specific option). So there is no KDE
> distribution that can show appdata.
> 
> Form the technical PoV, is it possible for scripty to extract messages
>  from such files (should they be added to the repos) and merge them back?

If you can provide a script/binary that extracts them and merges them back, 
sure.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Thanks in advance for your answers.
> 
> Best regards,
> Yuri
> 
> P.S. Such untranslatable files have already been added to some popular
> packages (e.g. Audacity).
> 
> [1]
> http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2013/11/01/upstream-adoption-of-appdata-so-fa
> r/