On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:27 PM Egmont Koblinger <egm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Currently, Icon= and similar fields in .desktop files are defined to be > > "localestring", and are extracted for translation by tools like xgettext. > > Are they really automatically extracted? Could you please point to a > concrete project(s) where this is an issue? > > In the one I've tested (gnome-terminal), only keywords with > underscores are extracted. That is, if you have "_Icon=..." in the > .desktop.in file then its value gets extracted to the .pot file, and > you end up with translated strings in .desktop. However, if you simply > have "Icon=..." in the .desktop.in file then it remains as-is in the > generated .desktop, and isn't extracted to the .pot file either. That > is, as far as I can see, there's no problem and there's nothing to > fix. What am I missing?
Extracting translatable strings from .desktop files using '_' prefixes is what intltool does. However as gettext itself supports extracting strings from .desktop files nowadays, using intltool is discouraged nowadays (at least in GNOME): https://wiki.gnome.org/MigratingFromIntltoolToGettext Gettext's .desktop file support doesn't depend on explicit markers though, it extracts all strings it knows can be localized (including the Icon= field). So any project that uses upstream gettext instead of intltool is affected by this. That includes any project that has moved to the meson build system (as meson doesn't have any intltool integration). _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
