desktoptojson and list properties / i18n of JSON files

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 18 de novembre de 2014, a les 14:09:00, Milian Wolff va escriure:
> On Tuesday 18 November 2014 12:48:42 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Monday, November 17, 2014 18:50:04 Milian Wolff wrote:
> > > > > > Or can we nowadays write the .json files directly, i.e. can
> > > > > > scripty/ki18n
> > > > > > cope with them nowadays?
> > > > > 
> > > > > So, any chance we can use .json directly here?
> > > > 
> > > > That should be possible, you can just drop the json file in there, and
> > > > reference that in the K_PLUGIN_FACTORY_WITH_JSON macro.
> > > 
> > > So scripty and the ki18n crew can cope with .json files nowadays? No
> > > reason
> > > to  use .desktop at all anymore?
> > > 
> > > That would be an acceptable solution for me. Though I guess
> > > desktoptojson
> > > should get a big fat warning that this it is deprecated and one should
> > > better  write .json directly to prevent such issues from occurring
> > > randomly
> > > in other projects.
> > 
> > Had I read your email, I'd have said no. I don't think scripty is ready
> > for
> > that yet, and desktoptojson isn't deprecated (and I doubt it will be for
> > some time).
> 
> Criss-cross! So back to the start. What can we do about this? Since this is
> a serious blocker for KDevelop, I'm open for suggestions and would be
> willing to spent time on improving the situation.
> 
> What blocks i18n from working on JSON files, does anyone know more about
> this? I think fixing that would be time well spent, contrary to improving
> desktoptojson.

Why do we need i18n support in json files?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Bye