KService, ksycoca and translations

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 7 de setembre de 2015, a les 23:28:40, Albert Astals Cid va 
escriure:
> Running
>    LANGUAGE=de kcmshell5 --list
> 
> in my catalan based system gives me almost everything in catalan.
> 
> That is because most of the strings come from kservice and my sycoca is in
> catalan.
> 
> KSycoca does not check the language is the one we want when opening the
> database so it does not recreate the database and i get the text in the
> wrong language.
> 
> I wrote https://paste.kde.org/pynh1ljco that checks the language of the
> sycoca matches the one we're loading.
> 
> But it is failing because the main ksycoca path is asking kded via dbus to
> recreate the sycoca and since kded doesn't know anything about the new
> language it creates the sycoca in catalan again.
> 
> Possible ways forward i see:
>  1) When recreating the sycoca fall back to calling kbuildsycoca ourselves
> (there's code for that already) when the version matches but not the
> language 2) Add a parameter to the kded recreate dbus call that adds the
> language we want to recreate the sycoca
>  3) Declare using LANGUAGE= unsupported
> 
> My "i don't know much about this thing" opinion says go for 1)
> 
> Actually does anyone know why we're calling kded to call kbuildsycoca if we
> could (and have code to) call kbuildsycoca directly.
> 
> Comments? Better suggestions?

I guess the "ksycoca and kbuildsycoca, the next step" thread is a better 
suggestion.

Anything i can do to help there?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
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