Investigating missing translations in Krita/other KDE-built binaries

[Halla Rempt]

On Monday, 25 January 2021 20:52:39 CET Tyson Tan wrote:
> Hi Halla,
> 
> The following translation files you mentioned:
> ./bin/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kconfig5_qt.qm
> ./bin/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kitemviews5_qt.qm
> ./bin/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kwindowsystem5_qt.qm
> ./bin/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kcoreaddons5_qt.qm
> ./bin/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kcompletion5_qt.qm
> ./bin/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kwidgetsaddons5_qt.qm
> ./bin/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/seexpr2_qt.qm
> 
> I have already 100% translated and verified all of them before Krita 
> 4.4.2, as part of my investigation, but none of them showed up in 4.4.2. 
> The Seexpr interface part inside of Krita.pot works, but not the stuff 
> inside of the library that holds the majority of its options. I don't 
> think any of them gets loaded.

I'll have to ask around to see how these are supposed to be loaded, because when I look into the code for these libraries, I don't see how that can happen. There's no startup hook to load them.

> 
> However, this one:
> kio-extras._desktop_.pot
> 
> Although you mentioned it wasn't shipped, I think it was shipped 
> somehow? In Krita's Save dialogue, the file type "Krita Document" has no 
> entry inside of Krita.pot. The only place I could find across all KDE 
> pots was inside of kio-extras, and the translation, although currently 
> not reflecting the last-minute changes I've just made, is definitely 
> loaded in our official binaries. Or maybe it was used a a building 
> dependency only?

It's not in the list of frameworks we build, so it just cannot be in there...

> 
> It should be noted that although not being a frameworks component, 
> seexpr2_qt.pot was not loaded for Krita. While marble_qt.pot, which is 
> also not a frameworks component, was correctly loaded for digikam. 
> digikam also loaded kxmlgui, but not kwidgetsaddons, which are both 
> frameworks libraries. I can't seem to find a pattern.
> 


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