Iñigo Martínez <inigomarti...@gmail.com> writes: > Actually I wasn't aware of the issue of the plugin files translation. > I came across it by chance when trying to port totem to meson[0]. Once > I figured out what was going on, I tried to solve the issue also > considering the options you mentioned[1], but I ended thinking about > those different options as workarounds for the real solution. Being > aware of the impact this issue might have considering the number of > applications that would benefit from a proper solution, I decided to > implement it.
I totally agree, though I would like to avoid the case where similar treatment is required for other .desktop file variants. Perhaps more generic approach would be to implement "per-file options" feature in xgettext[1], which would allow user to specify different options for each file within the same po directory. Footnotes: [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2015-06/msg00006.html Regards, -- Daiki Ueno