Re: Sawfish + intltool = headache (was: Re: Translation by Gnome)

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

On 10/18/09, Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 08.10.2009, 17:20 +0900 schrieb Teika Kazura:
>  > Hi.
>  >
>  > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:33:08 +0300, Mihai Călin Bazon wrote:
>  > >> > 2. One good thing Gnome has is translation.
>  > >
>  > >> since 2007 only 3 translations have been modified.
>  > >
>  > > Perhaps that's because nothing significant changed in Sawfish in the last
>  > > few years? :-p
>  >
>  > If it is true that Gnome team doesn't work much on sawfish, then we
>  > lose translated strings, little by little, each time improving
>  > existent docstrings. This point needs verification, and more
>  > consideration.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Teika (Teika kazura)
>
>  Well the issue that currently sawfish doesn't like (_ "string") anywhere
>  else than in list/alist widgets, therefore I can't mark the strings to
>  translate and the gnome translation team doesn't know about them, more:
>  the gnome-i18n-team uses intltool to create pot/po files, all strings
>  not marked (_ ) aren't recognised, so they end up as #~ in the .po files
>  after the gnome-i18n-team have updated a po file (latest one is de), so
>  they won't be included in the final .mo file. That's why I run
>
>  ./update.sh de
>
>  and such, to keep the old strings in, since they are in most cases
>  valid. I'm posting a copy of this mail to the gnome-i18n mailing-list,
>  to let the peeps from there know the issue. And I want to kill it before
>  1.6.0.

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't the proper fix to make Sawfish
use intltool properly, and/or if necessary extend intltool to support
whatever special tricks Sawfish is using?


Christian