Re: gedit schemas file warning.

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Damien Donlon wrote:
> > Well that is because people do it wrong. To get schemas files translated
> > you should do the following.
> >
> > cp file.schemas file.schemas.in
> > add the file.schemas.in to POTFILES.in and not the file.schemas
> >
> > Add the INTLTOOL_SCHEMAS_RULE and the file.schemas file (containing
> > translations) will be created.
>
> Thank you Kenneth! Is there a good general awareness of this among
> the package maintainers i.e have they updated their package
> POTFILES.in to include .schemas.in files? In a spot check of :
>
> gedit                 gnome-control-center  gnome-utils
> ggv                   gnome-desktop         gperfmeter
> ghex                  gnome-media           nautilus
> glade                 gnome-panel
> gnome-applets         gnome-session
>
> ..I only see references to .schemas in the POTFILES.in of gnome-panel,
> gnome-utils & gedit yet most of these modules contain .schemas files
> in their sources.
>
> Maybe they don't all have translatable content but it might be an idea
> to send a reminder to the gnome-hackers alias.

I think this is a bad idea. We are only four days away from deep freeze
(when not even translation updates will be allowed as I understand it) and
adding schemas.in translation to all modules will result in a huge load of
new strings to translate across most GNOME modules.


Christian