Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] po ignore files

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2007/1/24, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>:
> 2007/1/24, Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>:
> > Il giorno mer, 24/01/2007 alle 16.44 +0100, Michael Biebl ha scritto:
> > > tracker-search-tool.desktop.in
> >
> > this provides translation for label and comment of t-s-t launcher on
> > main menu. It have to be in POTFILES.in
> >
>
> The files in po/POTFILES.in are for the gettext translation system,
> where intltool extracts the strings from the source files, and the
> translation itself is done in the po files, which are then for speed
> reasons converted to a binary *.gmo format.
>
> *.desktop files are translated differently afaik. For *.desktop files
> you add the translation directly into the file itself.
> I can't see the need, why tracker-search-tool.desktop.in should be
> added to POTFILES.in.
>
> Can you please elaborate?

Just learned about @INTLTOOL_DESKTOP_RULE@, which seems to be some
Gnome specific l18n makefile rules, merging *desktop files with
gettext.

So you are absolutely right.

Michael