Here's some background first:
OpenOffice.org was translatable in Launchpad until a few cycles back.
Translations done in Launchpad had to be exported in a tarball by
clicking on the export button and then put in the package and build it
with them. After some cycles where translations were never exported and
put in the package due to lack of resources, we decided to disable
translation of OO.o in Launchpad so that we wouldn't waste the
translators effort.
So here's why there are no translatable templates for OO.o or LO (for LO
we haven't even discussed translations, nor have we checked whether the
package generates pot files that can be imported into LP)
And here's the proposal:
While we decide on what the best strategy for LO translations is, one
thing we could do is at least make the .desktop files translatable in
Launchpad. Right now they are up for translation in the wiki, which,
while it works, it's a pain for both packagers and translators to
maintain, and it does not allow for translations to be updated in
language packs. So here's an idea:
* Add 'X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=lo-desktop' to the LO .desktop files in the
sources
* Modify the package to build a POT file containing the translatable messages
from the .desktop files. I'd suggest having a rule in debian/rules to use
intltool to build that POT file. It should match the domain name in
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain, so it would be called lo-desktop.pot
* Once the package would build, lo-desktop would be exposed for translation in
Launchpad and would be marked for export in Language packs.
* Once the next language pack would ship, translations for the desktop files
would be loaded from there.
I think we should have a session on LO translations at UDS-O as well.
** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
** Changed in: ubuntu-translations
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu-translations
Importance: Undecided => High
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512395
Title:
Openoffice.org's .desktop files do not contain translation domain info
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
