[PATCH] Xffm intltoolized

[edscott wilson garcia]

Hi Daichi,

I followed your instructions to the letter, but after doing a make, the
generated desktop files are still devoid of all translations.
Other comments below:

El mar, 01-03-2005 a las 19:11 +0900, Daichi Kawahata escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> The following is the way to revert.
> 
>     o Applying patch (additional languages here)
> 
>     o Locating attached desktop files into po directory
> 
>       Former desktop files have syntax error and extra trailing
>       space, I've fixed that and modified comment in Xfglob,
>       Xfmime_edit, xfce-filemanager-settings to avoid translation
>       conflict. Strings used in the user-interface and tooltip etc.
>       should be distinguished in my opinion. I want you to
>       re-modified those comment if possible.

These should be the same string. That is intentional. 

> 
>     o Locating attached .desktop.in files into each directories
> 
>       Also, I've modified.
> 
>     o Regenerating aux. files with autogen.sh, running configure
>       script ordinary
> 
>     o Revert the translation in the po directory (order is important)
> 
>       1. sh poconv (UTF-8 rules)
>       2. sh desktop-revertor (take a while)
>       3. make update-po (POTFILE.in doesn't have xxx.desktop.in)
>       4. sh potgen (newly POTFILES.in will be generated)
>       5. rm -f xffm.pot ; make update-po
>       6. remove copied desktop files
> 
> Due to comment modifying, some strings tagged with fuzzy, it might
> somewhat a problem. Of course, if you had re-modified Comment line
> as well as Name and re-generate xffm.pot, that'll be fixed.
> 
> Also, obsolete translations (#~ leading lines) at that time will be
> discarded when you run desktop-revertor script, without discarding
> update-po won't work, I think that's tolerance level though. If you
> have a better idea, try that.
> 

For the development tree, obsolete translations should not be removed
since they may still be used later on.

regards,

Edscott

> PS. Benny, do you think there's needed special version of intltool
> under http://xfce.org/archive/tools/ or ahem, I remember that I never
> ask, is it ok package intltoolized? I want to know other developer's
> (xfce4-terminal, xfce4-appfinder, xfwm4, xfce-mcs-plugins, xfprint,
> xfce-utils) opinion also.
> 
> Have a happy internationalizing.
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