Bug 64878 - Please make ksconfig use intltool
Summary: Please make ksconfig use intltool
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ksconfig
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-05-13 20:18 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-01-18 17:47:41 UTC
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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.
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