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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    [Panel-devel] getThemePath broken in SK
From:       matt-lists () comnet ! net ! nz (Matt)
Date:       2005-06-07 11:44:10
Message-ID: 200506072141.16935.matt-lists () comnet ! net ! nz
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On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:56, Petri Damsten wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 11:30, Matt wrote:
> > wow.  Why do you need to use the getThemeText().
>
> I like to position my widgets in .theme file and just get pointers in
> python. This way I'm separating gui from the code (a bit like ui <-> cpp
> files in Qt).
>
> > Will createText() work as
> > well?  Also, why a two step process?  Why can't we put the _('%d Apples')
> > % 2 bit right into a createText() line?
>
> createText(widget, 0, 0, 100, 20, _('%d Apples') % 2) should work equally
> well. It's just the way I like to do my themes.
>
> > Also, will this work with utf-8 encoded characters (I am assuming it will
> > given that it's using i18n).
>
> Python should handle those well.
>
> > How would I go about converting my translation files to i18n based
> > translations?  Any way I might be able to automate this?
>
> After making modifications to code so that all strings are surrounded by
> _('') pot file should be made by running xgettext liquid_weather.py -o
> liquid_weather.pot. After that shell/python script could be made to convert
> existing translations to po files.
>
> Petri

Well looks like I've got a new weekend project :)

Thanks for the helpful explanation.  I'll be in touch in the weekend when I
start the process, and due to my inherent stupidity get completely stuck due
to some obvious point I've overlooked.

Matt
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