Re: which pot has desktop menu entries

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> > >   In older version of gnome, desktop menu entries, were in
> > > gnome-desktop.pot , but the latest gnome-desktop.HEAD.pot does not
> > > have them ( there are just 90-100 strings ). Is there any other
> > > pot which has the desktop menu entries ?
> >
> > As far as I know, desktop menu entries should now always be provided
> > by the apps themself, which in my opinion is a sane approach.
>
>  Hmm. So the entries are now in putapplicationname.HEAD.pot ?

Yes. Most GNOME applications and all GNOME2 applications that use intltool
lets their desktop entries be translated as regular messages in the pot/po
file.

For non-GNOME applications that don't use intltool you still have to edit
.desktop files manually, if they have .desktop files.


Christian