There are tree bugs: 1) locale isn't called at the begginnig of the program 2) variable CATALOGS in po/Makefile is commented out 3) SPEC file doesn't include .mo files in /usr/share/locale/*/*/* Without this, traslator's work is for... Patch for 1) and 2) [5 lines of code] submited below.
Created attachment 1636 [details] Patch to enable locale translations (5 lines of code)
During startup there is no $LANG or some other variable so kudzu pop-up in english language only. The safest way is to include '. /etc/profile.d/lang.sh' at the begginnig of the /etc/init.d/kudzu script. This script (lang.sh) is safe and do the 'export' stuff exactly only for the needed variables. I do not recommned to set up locale variables to master script (eg. /etc/rc.d/rc) because there may be some side effect...
This will be fixed in kudzu-0.57-1. Thanks for the patch!