Bug 3550

Summary:

[i18n] .desktop files should be generated and translated, instead of being statically checked in

Product:

Claws Mail (GTK 2)

Reporter:

khazarian

Component:

UI/Translations

Assignee:

users

Status:

RESOLVED PATCHESWELCOME

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

Version:

3.13.1

Hardware:

All

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Use intltool to translate strings in desktop file	none

Description khazarian 2015-10-23 07:33:49 UTC

TODO: make a claws-mail.desktop.in file that is translated and used to generate the *.desktop files instead of having them statically checked into the source repo.

From: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/1404142

Comment 1 Ricardo Mones 2015-10-23 10:14:18 UTC

The desktop file is not a fast moving target like the application interface, it's just a one-time translation effort, which would only need review if the specification changes a lot, which seems unlikely.

FWIW I'm happy adding new strings, but if you have a clean patch fixing this, let me know.

Comment 2 rezso 2015-10-23 17:28:21 UTC

Created attachment 1584 [details]
Use intltool to translate strings in desktop file

I made this patch based on latest git source.
Currently the GenericName, Comment, [Desktop Action ComposeMail] Name and [Desktop Action SendFile] Name translations will be lost after this patch, because these strings are missing in the .pot file.

Comment 3 Paul 2015-10-23 17:51:40 UTC

las time we tried intltool it was missing support for, iirc, 'distdir' and created a nice mess.

Comment 4 rezso 2015-10-23 21:16:21 UTC

And now?
It work fine for me, with „normal” build.