On 04.02.2013 09:47, Michael T. Pope wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:25:02 AM Michael Vehrs wrote: > > > The IzPack way is to write a desktop entry template for every supported > > > language... However, there does not seem to be any way to include > multiple > languages in a single desktop entry file, although the > standard clearly > > > supports this. > > Quite so. A quick grep in /usr/share/applications turns up many > examples of multilingual .desktop files. Here is the top of a small one. > > [Desktop Entry] > > Name=Audacity > > Name[de]=Audacity > > Name[ru]=Audacity > > GenericName=Sound Editor > > GenericName[de]=Audio-Editor > > GenericName[ru]=Редактор звуковых файлов > > Comment=Record and edit audio files with multitrack capability > > Comment[de]=Audio-Dateien aufnehmen und bearbeiten > > Comment[ru]=Запись и редактирование звуковых файлов > > > Unless I have missed some nook > > > or cranny of the installation process, the only way to fix this is to > > > rewrite the installer. I'm not yet sure whether this is feasible. > > Can we generate a fully multilingual .desktop, but tell izPack to just > install it as is? There must be some way of convincing it a file does > not need i18n or it would be trying to translate the .jars:-). >
The problem here is to convince the installer to put it in the right place. > Either way, I do not think this feature merits rewriting the > installer. We have harder FreeCol-specific problems. > I shouldn't have said rewrite. I merely meant to patch a single class. However, I still have one idea how the installer might be tricked. > Cheers, > > Mike Pope > Regards Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Freecol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-developers
