using gettext for .desktop translations

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:48:38PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > Both Ubuntu and openSUSE patch KDE and Gnome to
> > make them use translations from gettext instead of .desktop files.
> 
> Translations from where? Which format?
>
from the application's own .mo file (which is specified via a key in the
.dektop file - btw, maemo will do that, too). to make that not
unbearably slow, the translations would be aggregated and cached
transparently in a private catalog.