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

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Alexander Toresson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> Ah, yeah. I get the following during autogen:
> 
> WARNING: Unable to patch intltool-merge from versions 0.40.0 through 0.40.3.
> WARNING: Generated .desktop files may be invalid.
> WARNING: Unable to patch intltool-merge from versions 0.40.0 through 0.40.3.
> WARNING: Generated .desktop files may be invalid.
> 
> I will try to figure out why it fails tomorrow. Perhaps it conflicts
> with a distro-specific patch to the same file.

No, it CANNOT patch 0.40.0 - 0.40.3, ever.  You are SOL if you use these 
versions.  Your only options are 0.40.4+, or a 0.3x.y version that just 
happens to get patched properly by trial and error.  As I said.

	-brian