names of added apps doesn't match actual language

[Jan Schürmann]

i'm using Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit with all latest updates and German Language.
adding my german named applications to a drawer ends up in the original english names so i have to rename all apps by hand

[icb410 (ian-berke)]

Interesting... I'm not all that familiar with translations. It seems that many .desktop files have different locale keys for each field (e.g. Name). Drawers just pulls the default "Name" key from the file and doesn't look for a specific locale Name key (e.g. Name[de]). I'll investigate the possibility of reading a locale from the system and then pulling the appropriate keys from the desktop file.

BTW. If you're interested in contributing to translating drawers, please consider going through the following: https://translations.launchpad.net/drawers/trunk/+pots/drawers/de/+translate

Thanks,
Ian

[icb410 (ian-berke)]

Hi,

I think I have a solution to this. Would you mind testing a patch for me? It's attached. To apply it do the following:

cd /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/drawers/drawers
sudo patch < PATH_TO_PATCH/langs.patch

Try it out by adding an application to the drawer and please let me know if it works. Not all application's desktop files have locale specific name entries. If it doesn't, it won't work. You can double check if the application does, by dropping the .desktop onto gedit or opening with some other text editor. I used chromium-browser.desktop for testing since it seemed to have plenty of locale entries.

Note: the attached patch only adds support for an existing drawer. Drawers created in the beginning dialog by searching categories won't have this feature (yet)

Thanks,
Ian

[Jan Schürmann (visionfactory.net)]

running this patch does the same as i wrote for my other bug report, it starts and nothing happens, even after more than 5 minutes...

[Jan Schürmann (visionfactory.net)]

inserting and deleting the entries in drawer.py seem to broke the Drawers because after doing the changes, it doesn't open anymore, even after a re-login it doesn't open.
reverting to the original drawer.py instantly makes the Drawer open again...

so the patch doesn't seem to work on my system :-(