On 10/18/09, Christopher Roy Bratusek <zang...@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 _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n