Dear release team and translators, The bug in question is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397742
We have a blocker in Sabayon for GNOME 2.18.0. The problem is that Sabayon wants to use the "xdg.DesktopEntry" module in Python to read a .desktop file and extract a localized string, but this module is not generally shipped by distributions (yet). This is so that Sabayon can print "Calculator launcher" instead of just "launcher" or "launcher: calculator.desktop". I asked Sayamindu to make a patch which would use g_get_language_names() from Glib to try to find the correct localized string in the .desktop file, but this function is unfortunately not bound in pygtk yet. The patch attached to the bug is not robust enough yet. For now, I think the easiest solution is just to print the desktop file name: "calculator.desktop launcher" The string we have is _("%s launcher"), which is already translated. That is, we would use a lame filename instead of a nice human-readable string, but that's the best we can do for 2.18.0 right now. I'd like to know: 1. if the translators are OK with this 2. if the release team is OK with this change during the freeze period Thanks! Federico _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n