On Sun, 2018-09-09 at 21:08 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Originally, the desktop-entry-spec set the Icon field as "string". It > was changed in 2006 to "localestring" which means it is translatable. > > Recently in GNOME, many projects have switched from intltool to > gettext. gettext treats the Icon field as a translatable string > without a way for projects to disable that. In GNOME, we include a > comment to warn translators not to translate the Icon field but > translators sometimes don't see the comment. That causes breakage > because no one is providing translated icons here. > > Could we please change the Icon field back to "string"?
There are a number of such strings marked as translatable that translators don't take enough care to translate. For example, the RTL/LTR "translations", or calendar default settings in GTK+. This problem would be better fixed with tools that would allow checking for the validity of translations. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
