Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] po

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 17:56 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2007/3/2, Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>:
> > Il giorno ven, 02/03/2007 alle 13.48 +0100, Luca Ferretti ha scritto:
> > > Il giorno ven, 02/03/2007 alle 02.11 +0100, Michael Biebl ha scritto:
> >
> > > Michael, I'm not so much confidant with library localization, but from
> > > [1]
> > >
> > >         For use in a library, must include glib/gi18n-lib.h after
> > >         defining the GETTEXT_PACKAGE macro suitably for your library:
> > >
> > >         #define GETTEXT_PACKAGE "gtk20"
> > >         #include <glib/gi18n-lib.h>
> > >
> > > I'm going to merge your patch with this info..
> >
> > Checked. It works. Simply replace gi18n.h with gi18n-lib.h in your
> > patch. The GETTEXT_PACKAGE define come from config.h
> >
> > Using gi18n-lib.h the _() macro became
> >
> >         #define _(String) dgettext (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, String)
> >
> > so future external applications can use it with no i18n pain.
>
> Great, including gi18n-lib.h instead of gi18n.h did the trick.
>
> As you might have guessed, I'm not so familiar with localizing libraries myself.
> One problem I currently see, is that the translations (the *.mo files)
> are currently shipped in the tracker deb package. Now, with
> libtracker-gtk I intend to add two new deb packages, libtracker-gtk0
> and libtracker-gtk-dev, with libtracker-gtk0 depend on the tracker
> package now, as it contains the translations.
> I only see two possibilities here: Use a separate gettext domain for
> libtracker-gtk, or resurrect tracker-data, and put the translations
> there and have libtracker-gtk0 depend on tracker-data. What do you
> think?
>
> > Now the real issue are bad messages (from a l10n point of view[1]) in
> > libtracker-gtk, in new tracker-search-tool and in tracker-preferences.
> >
> > Here are a lot of malformed messages (markups, plurals, splitted
> > sentences). If you are right, it's better fix translatable strings
> > before add them to POTFILES.in. I'll report on this later
>
> Jamie, njpatel et al. should review the strings in the source code and
> then Jamie should commit the updated po/*.po files (make update-po).
> As Jamie expressed his intention to release a new version soon, this
> should be done asap to give translators some time to translate all the
> new strings coming from t-p and libtracker-gtk.

I dont think the strings in there are frozen yet? njpatel?

(I believe he is adding email metadata to the tile which will need
translation)


As soon as I have confirmation of string freeze I will do so.

In the meantime do i need to apply your patch with just gi18n.h replaced
with gi18n-lib.h?

(me knows very little about translations!)