From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, web-translators@gnu.org, bug-womb@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Package synopses and blurbs translation
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:17:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjn8rt8g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140107085738.GA13672@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:57:39 +0100")
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
> Packages which have a GUI, also need a .desktop file, which contains
> two translatable strings: "GenericName", and "Comment". For example,
> here is the .desktop file from pspp:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=GNU PSPP
> GenericName=Statistical Software
> GenericName[ca]=Programari estadístic
> GenericName[cs]=Statistický program
[...]
> I think the most desirable approach is to encourage package maintainers, to
> append the "Synopsis", "Description", "GenericName" etc strings to the .pot
> files for their projects. This saves having a team of translators dedicated
> to translating names/descriptions of packages and the translators who are
> already familiar with a package are in the best position to make a translation.
>
> However, not all package maintainers will comply.
Right, which means the only solution that works in practice is what we
have now.
In addition, since .desktop files don’t use gettext, I suppose it would
be harder to share translations. Someone would have to come up with a
tool that gets translations from the www po files, and extracts them to
a .desktop.
Anyway, that’s another story...
Ludo’.
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2014-01-06 17:41 ` Package synopses and blurbs translation Ludovic Courtès
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