Translation testing with x-test

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi David,

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:37 AM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> Just had a thought when making a checklist for plasma applets, we
> should probably check translations.
> Not the translation itself, simply that all strings are going through
> i18n() calls, and the source has the correct Messages.sh to extract
> these messages.
> It's quite easy to make a mistake in your code to not include the
> correct translation catalogue, or to extract the strings to a file
> that is never loaded. Given most developers develop and test in
> English no-one notices till after release. In KDE Telepathy we made a
> _lot_ of mistakes with regards to translation.
>
> The good news is that it's really easy to test, /if/ you have the right set up.
>
> All strings in KDE are automatically translated into a "language"
> called x-test, this simply prepends and appends every i18n'd message
> with "xx"
> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tools#Internationalization_.28i18n.29_Tools
>
> If you ever see a message without these "xx" wrappers you know
> something is wrong.
>
> Unfortunately this is quite tricky to set up:
> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Localization/Building_KDE's_l10n_Module
>
> and no distribution in their right mind will ever package x-test, so
> it has to be fetched and installed locally.
>
> Would it be worth:
>  - making this part of the testing check-list for an application
> (especially the new apps + applets)
>  - asking distros to package l10n-x-test. Kubuntu could do it solely
> in project-neon perhaps.

Why Neon? This seems a tad restrictive as one needs to run the neon
installation to use it, then. One of the kubuntu PPAs would be as good
a place, we could just ask them. Jonathan?

Regards, Myriam
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