Translation in Qt5

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 04:46:27PM +0200, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> > [: Oswald Buddenhagen :]
> I don't think there is a clear benefit in unifying KDE and Qt translation
> systems.
> 
> _From the point of view of Qt, considering their paying customers, why
> change anything in Linguist system?
>
because "everyone" is complaining about the extra contexts, including
our qml team. so there will be change. the question is what is necessary
to compensate it (@tags) and what we can usefully piggy-back on it as we
change anyway.

> The other benefit was that one could use one and the same translation
> system in both pure Qt and KDE projects; but this can be so anyway,
> since after modularization of kdelibs, KDE translation system will be
> a standalone library that could depend only on Qt[3].
> 
you are missing the point here. there won't be a "kde app" distinction
any more, not at the level where i18n starts to play a role (which is
qtcore). kde libs continuing to have a separate i18n system will
immediately cut half of their value as qt addons.