Translations on Mac (was Translations)

[Hannah von Reth]

Hm this looks indeed like we need to fix ecm.

Here is what we did for Windows

> https://github.com/KDE/extra-cmake-modules/blob/master/kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs.cmake#L520

I'll include the mac mailing list and the frameworks maling list.


Hannah



On 07/09/2017 08:11, Kåre Särs wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> (even tho I'm not Hannah :)
> On torsdag 7 september 2017 kl. 00:39:59 EEST Robert Lancaster wrote:
>> Hi Hannah,
>>
>> Jasem was telling me today about a new translations feature that was
>> implemented.  He said there might be problems on Macs and Windows but that
>> you are working on it.  I tried his instructions and got partially there. 
>> I went to the directory I was building kstars.  I used make
>> fetch-translations and it acquired the po files.  Then I did make and it
>> made the mo files.  Then I did make install and it put them into a
>> subfolder called /share/locale.   But it doesn’t show up in the program.
> KI18n searches <QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation>/locale/ for the 
> translation files. So on Windows one of the search paths is <app dir>/data/
> locale/
>
> Then the search path would be something like:
> "<app dir>/data/locale/<lang code>/LC_MESSAGES/<catalog>.mo"
>
>> Does this feature need to look in the /usr/share/locale directory for the
>> translation files or is it a relative path?  A big problem with that is
>> that on MacOS, the /usr/share directory is not writeable except by the
>> system.  Is there a way to change where it looks for the files, like a
>> preference?  Or would you need to hard-code locations?  A good place to
>> look for them would be inside the app bundle like
>> Kstars.app/Contents/Resources/locale or in ~/Library/Application
>> Support/kstars/locale.
> I would assume that the this means "/Library/Application Support/locale/..."
> in the application bundle. (Note: I don't have a Mac to check with...) 
>
> /Kåre
>


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