[Marble-devel] Unextracted plural tr() message in Marble (4.10)

[Yuri Chornoivan]

Dear Marble developers,

Thanks for your hard work on this beautiful Desktop Globe.

I have sent this message just to ask your help in solving some translation  
trouble.

Below is my message into kde-i18n-doc and Albert's answer to it. Is the  
proposed solution acceptable? Can you implement it?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Best regards,
Yuri

El Dilluns, 12 de novembre de 2012, a les 20:23:16, Yuri Chornoivan va
escriure:
> Hi!
>  As you might know, Marble has a special system that allows us translate
> its Qt version.
>  Regretfully, there might be some shortcomings in this system.
>  /src/lib/routing/Routingwidget.cpp:335
>  QString const results = tr( "%n placemarks found", "",  
> model->rowCount() );
>  This string is not extracted and is untranslatable:
>  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55247264/routing-2.png
>  Is there any way to make this string translatable?

Not really, extracting it is easy, but someone forgot to make the
QTranslator::translate function that accepts plurals virtual http://qt-
project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qtranslator.html#translate-2

So we can't hijack the tr() call and feed a proper string from the KDE  
side.

So i guess you should contact the Marble guys and tell them that maybe it's
better if they just do tr().arg(number).

We loose the different forms per plural but at least it's translatable.

Of course they could go full KDE and take all the goodies but i've lost  
hope
on that.

Cheers,
   Albert

>  Thanks in advance for your answers.
>  Best regards,
> Yuri