[kde-community] QtCurve

[Yichao Yu]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net> wrote:
> написане Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:55:20 +0200, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com>:
>
>
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Yuri Chornoivan
>>>
>>> Just want to notice that QtCurve has well-established translation
>>> infrastructure unlike some recent approved KDE projects. It would be
>>> great to
>>> have it with ready-to-release translations in KDE catalogs. :)
>>
>>
>> As for translation, I actually have a few questions:
>>
>> 1, If the translations of QtCurve is merged with kde-i18n, is it still
>> possible to release the translations along with QtCurve itself? Will
>> this also make it harder to make git package? (like this[1]).
>
>
> Sure. Just use release script from kdesdk to download the translations from
> SVN and package QtCurve traball. The ready-to-use tarball can be placed on
> KDE ftp or anywhere else if you like. Not sure if it can be automated for
> the releases without any tag (just a modification hash in git) though.
>
>> 2, I've noticed that KDE has automatic tools to merge translations into
>> desktop files. I'm wondering if its behavior can be customized. E.g.
>>
>> is it possible to make the merge at build time (not so bad if this is
>> not possible) and can it support non-standard (QtCurve specific)
>> desktop file (or maybe I should call it ini file). I might want to add
>> sth like this to QtCurve in the near future (mainly for the configure
>> system) and I don't think it is a good idea to modify the KDE scripts
>> for QtCurve because I would like to keep the freedom to change how
>> these QtCurve internal files are handled.
>
>
> Yes, this can be done. Just name these files with .desktop extension then
> rename them with CMake magic at the installation time.
>

The problem is not with the extension names, but the names of the
fields. I.e. the names of the fields may not starts with _ and may not
have the standard translatable names (e.g. Name, Comment etc.)

> Example:
>
> install( FILES
>     sth.desktop
>     DESTINATION ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}/qtcurve/ini
>     RENAME sth.ini
> )
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Yuri
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