Hi there,
Here’s the feedback after my translation efforts: Pan is part of GNOME
(Other Apps) and its translations are managed by the Damned Lies website
of GNOME. So if you want to submit a new translation or update an
existing one, you need to create an account there and join the
corresponding language team. Let’s consider French: from
<https://l10n.gnome.org/module/pan/> you’d go to
<https://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/pan/master/po/fr/> and after
registering and joining the team, you’d reserve the translation from the
drop down menu at the bottom of the page to make other members aware
that you’re working on it. Download the gettext file, open it with say
poedit and happy translating! When your work is finished, upload the
translation on the same page and wait for someone to review and commit
it. That’s all there is to it. The update for the French language, new
translations for the help in French and Turkish have been submitted and
are patiently waiting.
Additionally, to answer your following remark:
I've applied your fr.po file to my git repo, and I get this kind of diff:
-#: ../pan/data/cert-store.cc:328
+#: pan/data/cert-store.cc:359
msgid ""
"Error initializing Certificate Store. Check that the permissions for the "
The path of the source file has changed in the comment (the ../ part is gone).
I've no idea if that may cause problems for the next French translator.
Could you check the impact ?
I asked to a fellow translator, and it seems that there's no impact.
Anyway, translations will land from GNOME, so you shouldn't have to
worry about that.
Also, I (sort of) worked out why the version compiled “by hand” didn’t
take into account language changes on Ubuntu, whereas the version from
the repositories happily switched languages according to the desktop
settings (MATE in my case).
Firstly, I had to modify the CMakeLists.txt file at the root directory
of the extracted tarball by adding
target_link_libraries(pan ${Gettext_LIBRARIES})
and later, just beneath
set(GETTEXT_PACKAGE pan)
I added
find_package(Gettext REQUIRED)
and
include_directories(${Gettext_INCLUDE_DIRS})
otherwise it just didn’t care about gettext files.
Then, Pan happily installs language files at
/usr/local/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pan.mo for French, and the help
file goes to /usr/local/share/help/fr/pan/index.docbook for French
again. But apparently it looks for these files in
/usr/share/locale/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/pan.mo, therefore never finds the
translation (and translated help) files and falls back to English.
I played a little bit with the “main” CmakeLists.txt file to make Pan
take into account the translations. I’m attaching a patch in case it
would be useful. It can certainly be simplified, but as it does what I
need I didn’t touch it any further. Besides, in order to build new help
languages when they're committed, you may need to to update the
set(lang_list cs de es fr sv tr)
line of CMakeLists.txt file in the help subdirectory.
Finally, you may want to add the cmake-gui package to the Fedora
dependency list.
I hope this is useful in some way.
Best regards.
--- ./original/CMakeLists.txt 2025-05-25 16:27:28.000000000 +0300
+++ ./new/CMakeLists.txt 2025-07-12 23:57:23.366915135 +0300
@@ -17,17 +17,17 @@
DESCRIPTION "Pan usenet reader"
HOMEPAGE_URL "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan";
)
-
+message(STATUS "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}")
+message(STATUS "PANLOCALEDIR will be ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/locale")
# #cmakedefine completely refuses to recognise CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_xxxx or
# PROJECT_VERSION_xxxx
set(VERSION_MAJOR ${PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR})
set(VERSION_MINOR ${PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR})
set(VERSION_PATCH ${PROJECT_VERSION_PATCH})
set(VERSION_TWEAK ${PROJECT_VERSION_TWEAK})
-
+set(LOCALEDIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/locale" CACHE PATH "Locale directory")
set(PAN_DBUS_SERVICE_NAME "org.gnome.pan")
set(PAN_DBUS_SERVICE_PATH "/news/pan/NZB")
-
# Standard CMake modules
include(CTest)
@@ -70,8 +70,12 @@
# https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/add_executable.html
add_executable(pan pan/gui/pan.cc pan/gui/gui.cc)
+target_link_libraries(pan ${Gettext_LIBRARIES})
+target_compile_definitions(pan PRIVATE PANLOCALEDIR=\"${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/locale\")
# remove this so pan binary lands in build dir. But this requires
# first to rename pan/ dir to src/
+target_link_libraries(pan ${Gettext_LIBRARIES})
+
set_target_properties(pan PROPERTIES RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "pan/gui")
target_compile_options(pan PRIVATE "${CXX_STD}" "-Wreorder" "-Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant")
@@ -102,6 +106,8 @@
check_symbol_exists(localtime_r "time.h" HAVE_LOCALTIME_R)
set(GETTEXT_PACKAGE pan)
+find_package(Gettext REQUIRED)
+include_directories(${Gettext_INCLUDE_DIRS})
find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
@@ -232,8 +238,6 @@
# https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/configure_file.html
configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/config-cmake.h.in ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/config.h)
-target_compile_definitions(pan PRIVATE "PANLOCALEDIR=\"${LOCALEDIR}\"")
-
# https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/target_link_libraries.html
target_link_libraries(pan
pan-cc-gui
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