Problematic modules in Gnome CVS

[Danilo Segan <dsegan gmx net>]

Okay, there are a few problematic modules in Gnome CVS.

* Gdesklets-extras *


First of all, gdesklets-extras is assuming too much (that gdesklets  
itself is checked out to ../gdesklets), so status pages are incorrect  
for it, and I suggest everyone to periodically check out the CVS if  
they care about having complete translations.


* Pybliographer *

Next, pybibliographer had POTFILES.in removed by author, because it  
appears that it doesn't use intltool (see README.i18n in that  
directory). Still, this means there's not even a good way to update our  
translations, so it'd be nice if someone provided a nice update.pl like  
all of us have seen around ;-)

I'd do it myself if I get around to it, since I'm fixing all the other  
problems in the meantime (for those who care, there are a whole bunch  
of new messages in gnome-network because it had wrong POTFILES.in).


* Gimp *

Now, there's also a problem with Gimp (POT file is not generated  
correctly), but I get totally lost when I try to follow which file  
belongs in which POTFILES.in (there are po/, po-plug-ins/, po-script- 
fu/, ...). So, anyone with more knowledge than me in this area who can  
help? It could be as easy as removing the files that are no longer  
existant, but as I said, I'm not even sure if I should do that. As a  
help, this is a simple check I've did:

$ for i in `cat POTFILES.in | sed s/\#.*//|sort|uniq`; do \
> if [ ! -f ../$i ]; then echo $i; fi; done
app/core/gimp-grid.c

So, this one file should probably be removed from POTFILES.in. The same  
is true for the only file in POTFILES.skip (it's a desktop.in file,  
probably replaced by desktop.in.in file in POTFILES.in).


* GnomeMeeting *

This one has an updated POTFILES.in just fine, but it uses a generated  
cat-id-tbl.c which uses continuation lines ("\" and a newline following  
it) in C strings. I propose to change that to the form of separate  
strings per line, or (better) to fix gettext tools to handle it. OTOH,  
I'm providing a patch, that changes all occurences of:
"This is \
a string"
to:
"This is "
"a string"

which works with intltool and gettext much better, yet it's a valid C  
code.

Any comments before I file a bug (like idea for better way of solving  
this problem :)?


* The Rest *

Other, simple ones like mlview, nautilus and gnome-network, I've fixed  
myself.

Cheers,
Danilo
--- cat-id-tbl.c.orig	Sat Aug 25 13:06:17 2001
+++ cat-id-tbl.c	Wed Oct 15 18:38:47 2003
@@ -104,9 +104,9 @@
   {"Startup without applet support", 95},
   {"Contributors  :", 96},
   {"(c) 2000-2001 by Damien Sandras", 97},
-  {"\
-GnomeMeeting is an H.323 compliant program for gnome\n\
-This program is not supported by Microsoft(c).", 98},
+  {""
+"GnomeMeeting is an H.323 compliant program for gnome\n"
+"This program is not supported by Microsoft(c).", 98},
   {"GnomeMeeting Preferences", 99},
   {"General", 100},
   {"General Settings", 101},
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@
   {"Add", 113},
   {"Use this button to add the selected codec to the available codecs list", 114},
   {"Del", 115},
-  {"\
-Use this button to remove the selected codec from the available codecs list", 116},
+  {""
+"Use this button to remove the selected codec from the available codecs list", 116},
   {"Up", 117},
   {"Use this button to move down the selected codec in the preference order", 118},
   {"Down", 119},
@@ -143,9 +143,9 @@
   {"If enabled, incoming calls will be automatically refused", 131},
   {"Sound", 132},
   {"Incoming Call", 133},
-  {"\
-If enabled, GnomeMeeting will play a sound when receiving an incoming call \
-(the sound to play is choosen in the Gnome Control Center", 134},
+  {""
+"If enabled, GnomeMeeting will play a sound when receiving an incoming call "
+"(the sound to play is choosen in the Gnome Control Center", 134},
   {"Transmitted Video Codecs", 135},
   {"Video Size  :", 136},
   {"Small", 137},
@@ -154,13 +154,13 @@
   {"Video Format  :", 140},
   {"Here you can choose the transmitted video format", 141},
   {"Video Quality  :", 142},
-  {"\
-Here you can choose the transmitted video quality  :  choose 1 on a LAN for \
-the best quality, 31 being the worst quality", 143},
+  {""
+"Here you can choose the transmitted video quality  :  choose 1 on a LAN for "
+"the best quality, 31 being the worst quality", 143},
   {"Updated blocks :", 144},
-  {"\
-Here you can choose the number of blocks (that haven't changed) transmitted \
-with each frame. These blocks fill in the background.", 145},
+  {""
+"Here you can choose the number of blocks (that haven't changed) transmitted "
+"with each frame. These blocks fill in the background.", 145},
   {"Transmitted FPS  :", 146},
   {"Here you can choose the number of frames transmitted by second", 147},
   {"Enable Video Transmission", 148},
@@ -184,9 +184,9 @@
   {"Max. Bandwidth :", 166},
   {"The maximum bandwidth that should be used for the communication", 167},
   {"Enable Silence Detection", 168},
-  {"\
-Enable or not silence detection.  If silence detection is enabled, silences \
-will not be transmitted over the internet.", 169},
+  {""
+"Enable or not silence detection.  If silence detection is enabled, silences "
+"will not be transmitted over the internet.", 169},
   {"Received Video Codecs", 170},
   {"The video quality to request to the remote endpoint", 171},
   {"ILS Directory  :", 172},