Translations on Mac (was Translations)

[Syed Zayyan]

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On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Hannah von Reth <vonreth at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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> 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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