Lokalization for KDE AppStream AppData files

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday, 2014-02-25, 20:32:49, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dimarts, 25 de febrer de 2014, a les 20:24:12, Kevin Krammer va escriure:
> > On Tuesday, 2014-02-25, 20:16:57, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > El Dimarts, 25 de febrer de 2014, a les 15:13:07, Matthias Klumpp va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > > Hi again!
> > > > I talked to some people, and it looks like merging the translation
> > > > back into one file using existing tools is not possible. So it would
> > > > be hacking a custom solution or not merge everything into one file.
> > > > I don't want to write additional code if doesn't have a strong
> > > > advantage. So, I would like to ask if my previous suggestion, projects
> > > > create an .appdata.xml.in file and the l10n-script commits
> > > > localization back as .appdata.xml into the same directory, would be an
> > > > acceptable solution.
> > > 
> > > And then people will go and edit the english version in .appdata.xml and
> > > the translations will get out of sync.
> > 
> > script/theothertool could probably add an XML comment, something like
> > "this
> > is a generate file, do not edit, edit source file xyz instead".
> 
> It could, as well as it could work on a single file, but does it do that?

No idea, but prepending a comment sounds easy compared to the other thing :)

And the workflow of both intltool and itstool suggest that they always 
consider their output to be fully generated and not editable so they should 
really have the option of writing such a warning.
Just like UIC does or MOC.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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