Re: desktop and/or menu files localization (was: Re: adding desktop files to misc packages)

2007-07-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:31:33 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > I'd agree that BOTH of these should be able to read the .mo just > > like the application itself. > > .mo files do not exist when debconf preconfigures packages. Unless you > want to stick them in c

Re: desktop and/or menu files localization (was: Re: adding desktop files to misc packages)

2007-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: > I'd agree that BOTH of these should be able to read the .mo just like > the application itself. .mo files do not exist when debconf preconfigures packages. Unless you want to stick them in control.tar.gz and deal with them in /var/lib/dpkg/info/. When debconf l10n was being

Re: desktop and/or menu files localization (was: Re: adding desktop files to misc packages)

2007-07-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:53:03 +0200 Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 14 juillet 2007 à 08:28 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > > > From what I see in the dozens of .desktop files I have on my own > > > system, I see "Field[code]" fields for translations of "Field". > > > > >

Re: desktop and/or menu files localization (was: Re: adding desktop files to misc packages)

2007-07-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 14 juillet 2007 à 08:28 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > > From what I see in the dozens of .desktop files I have on my own > > system, I see "Field[code]" fields for translations of "Field". > > > > This is similar to what we had, in the past, for debconf templates and > > we all known

Re: desktop and/or menu files localization (was: Re: adding desktop files to misc packages)

2007-07-14 Thread Christian Perrier
> This is what I don't follow, Christian - I already do this upstream. > desktop/app.desktop.in.in can be preprocessed in packages using > autotools to handle gettext. The translated .desktop file is built at > package build time from the original file and the set of gettext > translations in the

Re: desktop and/or menu files localization

2007-07-14 Thread Ming Hua
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:54:58AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Quoting Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Le vendredi 13 juillet 2007 à 17:30 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > > > There are probably enhancements that would let it create _better_ > > > .desktop files. For example, ones wi

Re: desktop and/or menu files localization (was: Re: adding desktop files to misc packages)

2007-07-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:54:58 +0200 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (crossposted to -i18n) > Speaking about desktop files l10n, the current way to > translate them does not seem to scale very well to me. > > From what I see in the dozens of .desktop files I have on my own > system,