need an idea for kxkb (multiple variants UI)

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Friday 03 March 2006 12:33, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 17:25, Andriy Rysin wrote:
> > Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > >On Thursday 02 March 2006 09:38, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > >>On Thursday 02 March 2006 05:30, Andy Rysin wrote:
> > >>>> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 15:33, Andriy Rysin wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>Well there's worse problem with translation I've just discovered: the
> > >>>name for layouts  in XFree were adjectives (Belgian, Thai, Finnish)
> > >>> and in some version Xorg it's changed to nouns (Beglium, Thailand,
> > >>> Finland). As strings for tranlsation in KDE are still old that means
> > >>> almost all of layout names will be untranslated for new versions of
> > >>> Xorg. So I don't know if one UI string will go untraslated in some
> > >>> languages :(
> > >>
> > >>We have translations of country names already in KDE, see kdebase/l10n.
> > >> The problem is how to use it in kxkb. (I have no idea right now.)
> > >
> > >You can look at kdebase/kcontrol/locale/kcmlocale.cpp from line 257 on,
> > > the function KLocaleConfig::loadCountryList
> > >(Apparently there is not any other way than to load the .entry files.)
> >
> > hmm, that means to translate list of countries I need to load (and
> > parse) >200 files? Does not look like acceptable way to me :(
> >
> > Can anybody tell me if its hard to have things like Country name
> > translations in common *.po files so that we could reuse them with
> > simple insertCatalog() ???
>
> If you really must, you can use desktop_kdebase.po. But it would be the
> first time a desktop*.po module is called directly in KDE (as there were
> not meant for that).

Sorry, I have realized that you cannot do that as desktop*.po files are not 
packaged for the release.

>
> > Thanks,
> > Andriy
>
> Have a nice day!