Re: GGZ room translations

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Andreas Røsdal wrote:
> 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?


It seems that you were entirely correct about this...  :-)
Christian Persch has committed some changes, and now the .room files
are translatable. Thanks!

But this will not work with GGZ 0.0.14 yet, right?

 - Andreas