Description of problem: When promting Authencation Dialogue, the translated strings are not loaded. Now packagekit, system-config-firewall, system-config-print are infected. Other programs need to be investigated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use a locale wich has full translated system-config-filewall other than English (such as Chinese (Taiwan)) 2. Open system-config-filewall 3. Aunthencation Dialogue prompt Actual results: Stirngs are in English. Expected results: Showing fully translated strings. Additional info:
PolicyKit is the componet which I guess the issue related to. Hope the information above helps.
AFAIK, these strings are now in gnome-shell. CC'ing polkit maintainer for clarification.
I am the administrater of Ubuntu Chinese (Traditional) Translators besides a Fedora translater. There is something alike happened to aptdaemon of Ubuntu, you can have a check too. Maybe this will help: https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+bug/663150
Created attachment 502560 [details] Screenshot to show the problem. The string is still in English, although it has been translated.
Examples: 1. "Authentication is required to install a signed package" in PackageKit. You can get the translation at /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo 2. "Authentication is required to read and modify firewall settings" in system-config-firewall. You can get the translation at /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-firewall.mo And you can use msgunfmt XXX.mo > XXX.po to read mo file in human readible format (gettext shuold be installed fisrt) to check the translation.
After investigation, the zh_CN translations are not displayed either, even through it exist in /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-firewall.mo file.
It seems to be a bug affecting not only one language. It is something series. Could Policykit and gnome-shell developers help with we translators?
I think that this issue is quite critical for we translators all over the world. If it cannot be resolved, people see authentication dialogues in English. The i18n work from developers and l10n work from translators are ALL IN VAIN. Please consider to investigate this bug when you are less busy. :)
I tried to run s-c-firewall in Punjabi (pa_IN), Authentication dialogue was translation attaching screen-shot (Fedora 15) with following packages: gnome-shell-3.0.2-4.fc15.i686 polkit-gnome-0.101-1.fc15.i686 system-config-firewall-base-1.2.29-4.fc15.noarch
Created attachment 517512 [details] Translated message
(In reply to comment #9) > I tried to run s-c-firewall in Punjabi (pa_IN), Authentication dialogue was > translation attaching screen-shot (Fedora 15) with following packages: sorry, "Password" is still in English (tested pa_IN and zh_TW/zh_CN) Better to upstream this bug in either case (gnome-shell or polkit)
Created attachment 520513 [details] packagekit_authentication_promt_not_localized
Created attachment 520514 [details] system-config-firewall authentication prompt not localized
The details of packagekit authentication promt not localized: Action: org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install Vendor: The PackageKit Project
That seems still persists in even f17. I can see "Password" in English as it was reported at comment#11.
I have filed a bug report to upstream. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665497 If any new clue presents or the problem does not fixed in later GNOME releases, just tell upstream directly. I think that will make the developers to know it better and understand how important the issue means for non-English users.
The "Password:" string issue is tracked upstream here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675300
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This looks like fixed in f19, for Japanese at least. tested with User settings from gnome-control-center.
upstream bug has been closed as referred at comment#17, closing this as well.