Re: New version of Desktop Icons for Gnome Shell

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le 06.04.20 à 20:28, Sergio Costas a écrit :
> Hi:
>
> Sorry, I have to say that I'm still a little newcomer to the l10n world.
> In fact, I updated the file by recommendation of another translator... I
> presumed that it was needed to run "ninja desktop-icons-update-po" to
> ensure that the new, untranslated strings appear in l10n.gnome.org...

The Damned-Lies app on l10n.gnome.org takes care of updating pot/po
files, your task is to properly mark strings for translation in your
source code.

> Also, is it imperative to revert that commit? Mainly because the finish
> translation have been added, and I'm having a conflict, and I'm afraid
> of breaking something..

No need to revert.

> Where can I also find a tutorial with all this, to avoid screwing up it
> again?

You might read some material starting from this page:
https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject/

But more generally, if you consider the po directory as the realm of
translators, you will be fine, at least in the GNOME ecosystem.

Claude

> El 6/4/20 a las 8:46, Claude Paroz escribió:
> > (Sorry Sergio, my first message did not cc to gnome-i18n.)
> > Le 05.04.20 à 23:13, Sergio Costas a écrit :
> > > Dear Sir/Madam:
> > >
> > > I'm the main developer of Desktop Icons, the Gnome Shell extension. This
> > > is just a quick note to comment that in five days (April 10) I will
> > > launch a new release, so it would be great if you could update the .po
> > > file.
> > >
> > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons
> > Hi Sergio,
> >
> > Thanks for the notice, it's very precious for translators.
> > I guess you might want to point translators to:
> > https://l10n.gnome.org/module/desktop-icons/ instead.
> >
> > Could you add a .doap file to your repository? D-L will pick up the
> > information and enrich the above module page.
> >
> > In the traditional GNOME i18n workflow, the maintainer should almost
> > never touch the .po files, translators do. Could you then please revert
> > https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/commit/9f889af45281
> >
> > ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Claude