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

[Alexander Toresson]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well, ok, that's not entirely true -- you can manually patch your
> /usr/bin/intltool-merge.  Our autogen script can't do that for you, for
> obvious reasons.
>
>        -brian

If I understand the patching process correctly, it works for 0.3x.y
because those versions expose a intltool-merge.in in the build
directory, and this is why the same process doesn't work for 0.40.x,
because it doesn't?
Would it be feasible/'nice enough' to, for 0.40.x, install a patched
intltool-merge script with a different name (xdt-intltool-merge?) when
installing xfce4-dev-tools, and then make the Makefiles use it instead
of intltool-merge?

// Alexander