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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: I18n in koffice scripts
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-12-17 21:44:52
Message-ID: 200812172244.53264.aacid () kde ! org
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A Dimecres 17 Desembre 2008, Dag Andersen va escriure:
> On Mandag 15 december 2008 21:43:04 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > A Dilluns 15 Desembre 2008, Dag Andersen va escriure:
> > > Ok, I've been around the block a few times more, so I'll try to sum up
> > > my findings.
> > > First the premisses for this:
> > > I want to have some scripts translated :)
> > > These scripts are always run from within a koffice application (eg
> > > kplato) and can be regarded as an extension/part of that applications
> > > functionallity. This means that the user expects the language (and
> > > locale in general) to be the same as the rest of the application.
>
> (snip)
>
> > IMHO it makes much more sense to it to be in kross and not in kokross,
> > any other program using kross will have the same problem than KPlato is
> > facing now. kross core already depends on a load of kdelibs libs using
> > KIcon, KUrl, KMimeType, KStandardDirs, i18n, etc.
>
> Yes, ok, last attempt.
> I have created a new module "kdetranslation" in kross/modules (not
> committed) that encapsulates the i18n* methods. Use in python:
> import Kross
> t = Kross.module("kdetranslation")
> print t.i18n("This string can be translated")
>
> This is implemented in kdelibs/kross/modules so it is availabale to all kde
> scripts, and it doesn't depend on core being kde, so if core i's moved
> later, no problem.
> Why not just stuff it into the "forms" module? Well, I think this is
> cleaner. Sebastian, is this ok with you?
>
> Message extraction:
> For python scripts, it seems we can use the keywords etc set up by
> extract-messages.sh, just adding ---language=Python. See attatched file.
> Since the full i18n* functionallity is available I thought all messages
> could go into the same pot file. Ok?

Have you tested that it works? I mean extract-messages.sh says -ki18n but i 
don't know if that also works when i18n is a member of a class instead of a 
function.

Albert

>
> Ruby is not handled by xgettext so I don't know haw to do it. It has it's
> own gettext stuff but I haven't tested it.
>
> > So even some might think dropping KDE from kross is a good idea i don't
> > see it can happen easily as Qt does not have things to replace KMimeType
> > or KStandardDirs for example.
> >
> > But then, i'm obviously not kross maintainer nor and the single patch i
> > commited does not make me even a developer of it, so feel free to ignore
> > my opinion :-D
>
> I'm also not the maintainer ;)
>
> > Albert


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