Re: Glade textdomain oddness

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 11:46 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (I apologise if you get this twice, but I sent a copy as a non-member
> and gave up waiting for moderator approval.)
> 
> I think there's something wrong with my understanding of Glade
> mechanics, so maybe someone here can help me out. I have the property
> page test code below, (using Python bindings for Nautilus). When I run
> it, under say Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu Karmic, with a non-English
> language in use, some of Nautilus' special folders (Desktop, Network,
> File System) suddenly get labelled in English.
> 
> If I comment out the line "gtk.glade.textdomain(APP_NAME)" in
> "__init__", it doesn't happen. But why? All the PyGTK docs say is
> "This gtk.glade.textdomain() function allows you to use
> internationalisation with glade."

The text domain is an process-global setting, and in nautilus it is set
to be "nautilus", unsurprisingly. If you change it in a plugin then
nautilus translations will stop working.

There are ways to get non-global translations, using dgettext() in C,
but i'm not sure how they work in python.