On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Matthias Klumpp <matth...@tenstral.net>wrote:
> 2014-02-21 2:02 GMT+01:00 Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org>: > > [...] > > > > I'm very happy to see you pushing this forward. Muon will be supporting > this > > format from the next released version (to some extent) and I'm sure this > > will increase over time. > Great! Please keep in mind that the format is not meant to be > processed directly, but instead an intermediate Xapian database is > used. GNOME does not use it because the library for accessing the db > was not ready in time and it only had to run on Fedora anyway at that > time. > I will hopefully have time to work on the database stuff this weekend. > I'm aware of that library, but I don't really see the need yet. Maybe I will when we're actually using those. > > > Regarding localization, Albert is the man here. If he says it's done in a > > way, you do it this way. ;-) > > More seriously though, I agree that it's doesn't make much sense to have > it > > generated at build time, since this would require having all translations > > installed. Maybe we can figure out a mechanism appdata -> po -> appdata > like > > in the desktop files. It works great there for desktop files, and it's > the > > exact same use-case. > I have a compromise to offer, which will be necessary anyway in a way, > since to-be-localized entries in our XML files would have to be > prefixed with an underscore, so merging stuff back into the original > file does not work (unless we duplicate data there, which is ugly). > So, new suggestion: > * Project author creates file project.appdata.xml.in, containing the > raw data which has to be translated. > * Scripty processes that file and commits a project.appdata.xml file > in the same directory where the previous one was, containing all > localizations. If one is already there, the file is updated. > * We simply install the localized file and keep the other one as template > That solution would work, I would be happy with it and hopefully > Albert as well :-) If not, please make an alternative suggestion. > Cheers, > Matthias > > -- > Debian Developer | Freedesktop-Developer > I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/ > Aleix
