The policykit .rules file libvirt installs isn't translated. So every non-english virt-manager user at least is confronted with this in the policykit auth dialog. gnome-settings-daemon has an example of how to do it: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/wacom/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.wacom.policy.in.in Unfortunately the machinery that handles it all is intltool, which wants to own the world WRT translations. We might be able to skip the intltool macros and make it all work by calling /usr/bin/intltool\* tools manually, but by the time I got that far my patience was gone and I decided to just file this bug :)
*** Bug 890321 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Note, sounds like newer gettext can handle these files automatically: https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/07/21/using-modern-gettext/ Not sure if we can depend on that though?
*** Bug 1487825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
seems like dan figured out the incantation for using modern gettext to pull strings out of XML files, here's the virt-viewer thread: https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2019-March/msg00056.html I suspect we can do the same for the polkit file
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