Hi Michael, I think you're right: if those strings will neve be shown in the GUI and adding them to POTFILES.skip does the trick, I don't see any problem with it.
If I'm wrong with this please let me/us know. Regards El mar., 18 ago. 2020 a las 14:24, Michael Gratton via gnome-i18n (< gnome-i18n@gnome.org>) escribió: > 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 > > -- > Michael Gratton. > <https://mjog.vee.net> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n >
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