[KDE-India] installing desktop_*.po?

[Pradeepto Bhattacharya]

Hi

     I am sure Ananth can summarise this put this up somewhere on
in.kde.org. Ananth do you think this can be done and if so could you
please help? Thank in advance, appreciate it.

    Cheers!

Pradeepto


On 1/20/06, Vivek Rai <vivek.rai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hope  you are  co-ordinating this  with the  teams already  working on
> > Indic  translation; and  geuss  you  will be  better  off asking  this
> > question the indlinux list - see
> >
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
>
>
> Yes, i have been working as a volunteer in indlinux for a few years now, and
> had asked the question there too.. just duplicated it here in desperation ..
> (indlinux mailing list can suddenly go very queit at times!).. actually, i
> have found the answer now.
>
> > Hmm.. there is  some confusion - you should  be translating files with
> > the extension  .pot; you do not  (cannot) build anything  from the .po
> > files.
>
>
> umm... actually... .pot files are the untranslated templates.. created out
> of running xgettext on the source files. u then create a .po file for your
> language (either a simple cp, or after merging with various compendium, or
> after merging the old po with the latest pot), and do translations of the
> .po file, these get built to .mo files (using msgfmt) which are normally
> deployed under /usr/share/locale/
>
> > You want to build the files  for translating from sources? Or you want
> > to  install  the  translated  .po  file?  (once  again,
>  googling  for
> > localisation will help)
> > also see:-
> >
> http://www.ncst.ernet.in/groups/research/oss/downloads/localisation/localisation-guide.pdf
>
>
> Thanks for the link.. this was a specific case of applying translations to
> desktop_*.po files. After build+install these would appear as *.desktop
> files. I was looking to findout how this works..
>
> the answer is:
> 1) the desktop_*.po files have the target *.desktop file name as a comment
> above the msgid in the po file.
> 2) There are 2 scripts under l10n/scripts (at the top level of your KDE
> source tree, if you checked l10n module out), which do the task.. arent
> documented well.. no comments, but i think i should be able to hack them
> around.
>
> a) merge_desktop_files.sh (looks like it creates an apply.mo from the
> desktop_*.po and it then calls the executable apply to apply translations to
> dektop files, looking at apply.cc , it simply iterates and dumps out various
> entries needed by a .desktop file (Name=xxx, GenericName=yyy etc) )
> b) createdesktop.pl (appears to be doing the reverse of above, generating
> pot files from desktop entries)
>
> I can take these utils as my starting point, and create a simple perl/sed
> script which will apply my desktop_kdenetwork.po translations to the target
> kopete_*.desktop files.
>
> Thanks guys, at least the next person in the universe facing the same
> question should have a ready answer within the kde.org website. ;-)
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