Translations on Mac (was Translations)

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Could it be possible to also look for translations relative the current
binary? Like on Windows using Craft translations are stored in
bin/data/locale, can a similar structure be used in MacOS? Does this
require a change in KF5 or ECM cmake scripts?

Regards,
Jasem


On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:02 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thursday September 07 2017 14:37:56 Hannah von Reth wrote:
>
> What ECM really ought to have is a link to QStandardPaths which is the
> source of all the evil mentioned below. In the simplest approach it could
> be set up when being configured, querying the qtpaths utility for the
> writable standard locations, but it could also include a simpler version of
> that utility (which can receive a program name argument so that it can
> return the exact correct app-specific locations).
>
> NB: the only thing to look out for is the writable ApplicationsLocation
> which is likely (used) to be /Applications on Mac ... which has a whole
> different role on Mac than that location has on Linux.
>
> The standard location for GenericDataLocation (that's where the locale
> directory is expected?) on Mac:
> ~/Library/Application Support:/Library/Application Support
>
> One big request: don't hardcode any Mac changes. I'm following the
> complementary approach in my KF5 ports for MacPorts, patching
> QStandardPaths so it returns compatible ("standard") locations, so the .mo
> files in my $prefix/share/locale work as expected.
>
> R.
> >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
> >>
> >
> >
>
>


-- 
Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq
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