Raster,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:11:46 +0300 Ulisses Furquim <[email protected]>
> said:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:39:56 +0400 batden <[email protected]> said:
>> >
>> > that contains translations for specific applications and toolsets etc. not
>> > 1 mo per app at all (no way to know how the .desktop file maps to some
>> > specific .mo to open). what mo file contains the translations? if what you
>> > say is true - the .mo translations are used to GENERATe the.desktop files -
>> > then the .desktop files should have all the translations in them. they
>> > don't.
>> >
>> > so where is the magic .mo or set of .mo's that need to be loaded and used?
>> > and don't tell me "every .mo in the langpack local dir needs to be loaded"
>> > as thats just not going to happen :)
>>
>> In Ubuntu they're using a "X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain" key in the
>> .desktop file to specify the translation domain for gettext. :-) Other
>> distros must be using something similar.
>
> but gnome-terminal.mo... doesn't exist for most locales. ffor example for
> gnome-terminal. same with inkscape, or gimp... the only ones i see are for 
> en_*
> - n de, fr, es, pt, ja, ko... etc.

IIRC they have langpack packages so you can have .mo files only for
some locales (and I think someone on this thread already mentioned
that).

> that mo can be sanely used for the app - but a launcher/menu having to load an
> extra N .mo files (1 per app/desktop) just to get 1, 2 or 3 strings from them
> for the .desktop... that seems a wonderfully extreme way to do this. and
> evidence doesn't show that this is the case - at least here on 10.04

Well, I do think they do that. However, in order to be sure I'd need to check.

Best regards,

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