Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Matthew, Matthew East [2009-08-31 15:42 +0200]: > This is surely a bug in gnome-terminal, isn't it? I'd say it is, yes. > If so, can't we just do some testing and try and make sure that such > bugs are fixed upstream? I'm willing to help test and report bugs. I was just afraid that this

Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-31 Thread Matthew East
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello again, > >> to get yelp to pick up the omf files in that location, I'm >> pretty certain you only need to modify rarian > > Argh, while this seems true for most programs, it already breaks with > gnome-terminal. That unfortunately doesn'

Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-30 Thread Martin Pitt
Shaun McCance [2009-08-30 10:34 -0500]: > OK. I'm not a packaging expert, so I'll just have to trust > you on this one. But I don't see how splitting a package > into subpackages is any different than what gets done now > with -dev packages. If a file moves from e. g. libfoo1 to libfoo-dev, then

Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-30 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello again, > to get yelp to pick up the omf files in that location, I'm > pretty certain you only need to modify rarian Argh, while this seems true for most programs, it already breaks with gnome-terminal. That unfortunately doesn't just call ghelp:gnome-terminal (as most other GNOME programs

Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-30 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Matthew, hello Shaun, Matthew East [2009-08-27 23:19 +0100]: > I've had a chat this evening with Shaun Mccance, the Gnome yelp > maintainer. It seems that yelp gets its paths from rarian, and rarian > gets its paths from the content of the omf files. So we can patch the > omf files (seems to

Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-27 Thread Matthew East
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Matthew East wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: >> Matthew East [2009-08-27 19:36 +0100]: >>> I suspect that it should be possible to add an alternative search path >>> to yelp so that it checks in more than one location. >> >> It's not jus

Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-27 Thread Matthew East
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Matthew East [2009-08-27 19:36 +0100]: >> I suspect that it should be possible to add an alternative search path >> to yelp so that it checks in more than one location. > > It's not just yelp, though, there are also the omf files which seem to >

Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Pitt
Matthew East [2009-08-27 19:36 +0100]: > I suspect that it should be possible to add an alternative search path > to yelp so that it checks in more than one location. It's not just yelp, though, there are also the omf files which seem to be handled by rarian? > Likewise, it seems to me that such

Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-27 Thread Matthew East
Hi Martin, On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > With normal gettext mo files we solved that problem by storing them in > a separate directory (/usr/share/locale-langpack/), but doing the same > is not that easy for GNOME help; I'm not quite sure whether adding an > alternative sea

Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Pitt
Loïc Minier [2009-08-27 18:31 +0200]: > Perhaps instead of stripping the files entirely from regular packages > you could make them symlink to a langpack specific location? We'd then > investigate over time which apps need to patched to work with the > langpack location directly, or just keep

Re: Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-27 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009, Martin Pitt wrote: > With normal gettext mo files we solved that problem by storing them in > a separate directory (/usr/share/locale-langpack/), but doing the same > is not that easy for GNOME help; I'm not quite sure whether adding an > alternative search path to yelp and ra

Advice needed - moving GNOME help files into langpacks

2009-08-27 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello all, one of our long-term goals to reclaim some much needed CD space has been to move the translated text and images in /usr/share/gnome/help/ and /usr/share/omf/project/*-.omf from the actual GNOME packages into language-pack-*. (We are currently 10 MB oversized, and only have three langpac