John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > Packages which have a GUI, also need a .desktop file, which contains > two translatable strings: "GenericName", and "Comment". For example, > here is the .desktop file from pspp: > > [Desktop Entry] > Name=GNU PSPP > GenericName=Statistical Software > GenericName[ca]=Programari estadístic > GenericName[cs]=Statistický program
[...] > I think the most desirable approach is to encourage package maintainers, to > append the "Synopsis", "Description", "GenericName" etc strings to the .pot > files for their projects. This saves having a team of translators dedicated > to translating names/descriptions of packages and the translators who are > already familiar with a package are in the best position to make a > translation. > > However, not all package maintainers will comply. Right, which means the only solution that works in practice is what we have now. In addition, since .desktop files don’t use gettext, I suppose it would be harder to share translations. Someone would have to come up with a tool that gets translations from the www po files, and extracts them to a .desktop. Anyway, that’s another story... Ludo’.
