Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 22:28:42 +0100
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
>> Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis:
>>
>> > * gnu/packages/qt.scm (qtkeychain): New variable.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > + (modify-phases
>> > + %standard-phases
>>
>> ‘%standard-phases’ goes on the previous line.
>>
>> > + (add-before
>> > + 'configure 'set-qt-trans-dir
>> > + (lambda _
>> > + (substitute* "CMakeLists.txt"
>> > + (("\\$\\{qt_translations_dir\\}")
>> > +
>> > "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/qtkeychain/translations")))))))
>>
>> Is Qt able to find translations installed there? Is some environment
>> variable needed to tell it where to look for them?
>
> I don't really know.
Could you check by running it with a non-English locale listed that
appears in the ‘translations’ directory?
Maybe run the application in ‘strace’ to see whether/where it looks for
its translation files.
> Without this it tries to install them to
> /gnu/store/...qt5/translations, so I tried to make a directory that
> would make sense. In this patch I've changed it to just /translations,
> but I still didn't see it in .guix-profile/share/{de,ro}/LC_MESSAGES/,
> so I don't really know what to do with it.
Qt has its own mechanism for translation of UI messages. The
LC_MESSAGES thing is used by the ‘gettext’ function, part of libc.
Applications using ‘gettext’ tell libc the location of their
translations using ‘bindtextdomain’.
Qt must have a way to know where translations are; maybe it has a
function similar to ‘bindtextdomain’, in which case things will just
work regardless of where translations are installed.
TIA,
Ludo’.
