Re: ui-extract.pl

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

>         The problem is how best to extract translation information from   
> xml files, after much discussion with the translation team, Kenneth
> implemented a nice perl script to deal with the UI xml files ( it is used   
> for this in several CVS modules ). At the same time he also added some
> capability to deal with glade files; unfortunately the glade file support 
> seems to be badly broken.

Well, although it is a nice "feature", I rather go back to the glade
method.  Can someone take care of this?

>         Adding them to the repository is the _correct_ thing to do; many
> translators do their work on mimimal systems, and they do not wish to   
> build all the sourcecode first; consider the evils of having to build    
> eg. all of evolution, just to translate 1 new string.

I am glad you agree with me.

The translation issue is big enough that it needs to be rethought
within the GNOME community at a larger scale.  

Hecto has posted something among these lines in gnome-hackers.

Miguel.