Translations

[Robert Lancaster]

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.  

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.

Thank you,

Rob