Hi, On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 02:56:58PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 09/01/14 13:48, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > PS: I also wonder if there is some generic script to update *.desktop > > files using PO files. > > GNOME uses intltool for this. Look at how gnome-terminal generates its > .desktop file, for instance: gnome-terminal.desktop.in.in (the actual > source) does not contain any translations at all, and strings from > po/*.po are merged into it at build-time.
This is it. I thought I saw it somewhere. > (You might only need one layer of ".in" if the .desktop file contains ?? Do you mean s/if/unless/ ?? I have no absolute path in the desktop file. > hard-coded paths, but in general you'll need one layer for intltool, and > one for Automake substitutions like @bindir@, hence ".in.in".) Well many of my packages use po4a or raw xgettext to create PO. So using Autotools are overkill and complicated. But tools such as intltool-merge(8) seems to be quite handy. Thanks. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140110161444.GA8746@goofy
