[Konversation-devel] [Bug 256612] Scripts are not translatable

[Eike Hein]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256612


Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Eike Hein <hein kde org>  2011-05-25 12:31:08 ---
This has been partially addressed now, for Python scripts. Python scripts can
import an i18n module from a konversation package that makes the usual
i18n/i18nc/i18np/i18ncp calls available. The two bundled Python scripts, cmd
and media, have been converted and scripty has been extracting their strings
for a while now.

We're considering porting the rest of the bundled scripts to Python as well,
but the downside of that is that it would mean stopping to ship scripting
examples in a variety of language. We would have to find some other way to make
up for that. We're not considering implementing i18n support for other
scripting languages at this time due to the maintenance cost.

For the completeness, here are the relevant changelog entries:

* Scripts executed by Konversation can now access Konversation's current UI
  locale in the KONVERSATION_LANG environment variable.
* Konversation now installs an experimental Python scripting support package
  named 'konversation' into a subdirectory of its application data directory
  and appends all 'konversation/scripting_support/python' directories found
  in any KDE application data resource directories (i.e. within $KDEHOME,
  $KDEDIRS, etc.) to the PYTHONPATH environment variable available in the
  script execution context, thereby allowing Python scripts executed by
  Konversation to import the package. The package currently sports modules
  providing APIs for i18n support and D-Bus communication with Konversation.
* User-facing information and error message strings in the bundled 'cmd' and
  'media' scripts now finally enjoy translation support, making use of the
  experimental new Python scripting support package described above.

As mentioned this new Python API is currently still considered experimental
with regard to third-party scripts.

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