In Shotwell 0.7.2 as included in the FC14 beta, the GNOME desktop description files shotwell.desktop and shotwell-viewer.desktop in /usr/share/applications contain only US English strings, when they should contain strings for all 41 supported Shotwell languages. The user-visible effect of this is that for all non-US English users, when they go to the main GNOME "Applications" menu and select "Graphics", they see an English descriptive string ("Shotwell Photo Manager") instead of a string in their native language. To observe this, simply log out of Fedora, set your language preference to any language other than US English, log back in, open the "Applications" > "Graphics" menu and note that the Shotwell descriptive string is in English regardless of whatever desktop language you're using. This language mismatch does not happen when you download a Shotwell source tarball from the upstream developer at http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/install/, and then build and install Shotwell from source by typing $ su # ./configure --prefix=/usr # make # make install (this is the standard way of building Shotwell from source on Fedora) Since Shotwell builds and installs correctly from a raw tarball but isn't correctly installed by default, this may be a packaging issue.
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I've identified the problem and notified upstream: "The problem is that gettext always returns the original string untranslated, if LANG=C. And guess what rpm sets LANG to when doing a build? Not sure what the proper fix for this is. We're currently working around it by setting LANG=en_US.utf8 before 'make install'. That seems to do the trick." Updated builds for F-15 and F-14 will follow shortly.
shotwell-0.8.90-2.r2758.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/shotwell-0.8.90-2.r2758.fc15
shotwell-0.8.1-2.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/shotwell-0.8.1-2.fc14
shotwell-0.8.90-2.r2758.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
shotwell-0.8.1-2.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.