_X-XfceSettingsName not getting 'expanded' with translations in .desktop files

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Tue Oct 14 23:11:51 CEST 2008


Alexander Toresson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just noticed that _X-XfceSettingsName won't get expanded to
> X-XfceSettingsName[LANGCODE] in trunk and thus translations of the
> entries in the settings manager fall back to using _GenericName, and
> are thus needlessly long.
> 
> I also took a look at how .desktop files are generated from
> .desktop.in files, and as the process does seem to be done by intltool
> (by invoking @INTLTOOL_DESKTOP_RULE@), is this a bug in intltool?

Yes, you have a buggy intltool.  Either upgrade to intltool 0.40.4, or 
use a 0.3x.y version of intltool, and xfce4-dev-tools will patch it for 
you during autogen (at least it will try -- watch the output; if it 
fails, you're out of luck).

	-brian



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