Lokalization for KDE AppStream AppData files

[Matthias Klumpp]

2014-02-25 20:38 GMT+01:00 Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org>:
> 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.
Only developers should have to edit that file - translators will
translate the po file which is used by itstool/intltool to translate
the XML. And I consider developers to be smart enough to edit the
source-file and not the generated one (print a warning somewhere might
be a good idea anyway...)
Itstool has a nice summary of the workflow described here:
http://itstool.org/documentation/basic-usage/

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