Re: GGZ room translations

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Josef Spillner wrote:
> Am Montag 14 Januar 2008 21:28:10 schrieb Andreas Røsdal:
> > The translation of *.desktop files is still done in the .po files, which
> > is where all the other translation work also happens. Gettext
> > "automagically" extracts the translatable strings from the *.desktop
> > files, then includes the string for translation in each .po file, so that
> > gettext during runtime can lookup the binary .mo files to translate the
> > string correctly. The whole GNOME translation infrastructure is build upon
> > using gettext (and .po files).
>
> Hm... are you sure about that? I thought that the .desktop -> .pot
> transformation happens for translation only, and afterwards .po contents are
> merged back into .desktop. So you say that in GNOME all .desktop file
> translations are not read from the .desktop files themselves but from .mo
> files?

On second thought, I think that you are correct about this.
My main point is still valid, though, which was that translators do their
work in *.po files, not in any other files. So I still think that translators
would prefer if the strings for the .room files could be put in .po files
for translation. Perhaps we should ask some translators?


 - Andreas