desktoptojson and list properties / i18n of JSON files

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 23:00:57 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > So again, what is necessary to get this done?
> 
> Well, there's two steps about this:
> 
> 1) Know where the code is that gets the Name/Comment/Description from the
> json

I don't understand this. What do you mean exactly?

> 2) Decide how you want to translate stuff (which may depend on 1)
> 
> For 2) there's broadly two options:
> 2.1: Make the .json file have the translations and make sure the code from
> 1  reads it properly
> 2.2: Make the translations be in the .po and then make the code from 1 read 
> the english variant and call i18n(englishText)
> 
> 2.2 is easier (if possible to change the code in 1 to do it) since it does
> not  involve writing back strings to the json file.

I'd prefer 2.1, since we have to write the json metadata into the plugins, so 
we'd have to assemble the original (untranslated) and translated data into one 
json structure anyway.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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