Ignoring source files with strings that will never be presented in the UI

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hi all,

Just wanted to check some rationale regarding ignoring some 
translatable files that contain strings that will never show up in the 
UI.

Geary is using libpeas for plugins, which uses a desktop-file format 
for plugin metadata such as human-readable names and descriptions. 
Geary has both internal and optional plugins. The internal ones are 
always loaded and are never presented in the UI, however libpeas 
requires them to have a Name key in their desktop file regardless, and 
hence this is showing up as a translatable string.

See this for example: 
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/blob/462edf7eb8f07014f5f160f49e9e217812f3c05e/src/client/plugin/special-folders/special-folders.plugin.desktop.in> 
- currently it has a comment for translators to avoid translating it.

These files are currently listed in POTFILES.in since it's best 
practice for all source files to be present there, but on the one hand 
surely it would be better for these files to be skipped. So I'm not 
sure what to do.

Can I just remove them from POTFILES.in and put them in POTFILES.skip 
instead?

//Mike

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