Re: Untranslated entries in print dialogue

[F Wolff <friedel translate org za>]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Jiro Matsuzawa <jmatsuzawa gnome org> wrote:
> 2013/9/27 F Wolff <friedel translate org za>:
> (snip)
> > > > I'm struggling a bit with my GTK+ UI translation.
> > > >
> > > > In a print dialogue, under Page Setup -> Print Only  the three entires
> > > > (All sheets...) are untranslated.
> (snip)
> > > Good catch! You should report this as a bug on the bugzilla [1].
> > > It seems that all the <item> elements marked as trasnlatable are not
> > > correctly extracted.
> > >
> > > I think it would be better that POTFILES.in contains not *.ui.h but
> > > *.ui themselves.
> > > But, according to the commit log, that seems to be done with purpose.
> > >
> > > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtk%2b&keywords=I18N+L10N&component=general
> >
> > I can't see why it is not extracted, though: it is marked as
> > translatable, and the XML looks like another combo box on the same
> > form that is extracted correctly. Any ideas?
>
> Gtk+ does not take advantage of intltool. It extracts strings by itself.
> It seems to ignore content other than that of <property> element.
> See gtk/extract-strings.c.

It seems you are right. The extracted strings on that page (Landscape,
Portrait...) are because they occur elsewhere as well.

Does anybody know why GTK+ does not use intlool? What is the status of
this directive in the developer guidelines?
https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines/Localize%20using%20gettext%20and%20intltool
I thought all modules should follow a standard process, or not?

Friedel