Bug 64878

Summary:	Please make ksconfig use intltool
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Christian Rose <menthos>
Component:	ksconfig	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	kenneth
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Description Christian Rose 2002-05-13 20:18:29 UTC

Please consider ksconfig use intltool. This will significantly ease the
translation of the .desktop file entries for translators, since they can be
translated and maintained directly from the po file.

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2002-05-28 16:30:46 UTC

We need to do this soon, but I don't have a current timetable for it.

Comment 2 Christian Rose 2002-11-09 12:12:17 UTC

Don't know who closed this one, but I'd really like to know the reason.

Comment 3 Christian Rose 2003-01-18 11:29:43 UTC

Why was this marked WONTFIX? No reason was given...

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2003-01-18 17:47:41 UTC

Oh sorry.  Using intltool will require using autoconf, which to me is overkill
for a simple python program.

Comment 5 Kenneth Rohde Christiansen 2003-01-18 17:54:50 UTC

Nope, it doesnt require use of the auto* tools. 

It really isnt that hard.

Create a po/ dir.
Add a po/POTFILES.in file, including the path to the somename.desktop.in file

Then to create the somename.desktop file all you do is:

$ intltool-merge po/ -d -u -c po/.intltool-merge-cache somename.desktop.in
somename.desktop

you can also type intltool-merge --help for a bit more info.