Translation bugs in About Me for Danish

[David Christiansen]

Binary package hint: gnome-utils

To reproduce:
Install Feisty in Danish with all updates
Click System menu
Select Indstillinger (Preferences)
Select Om mig (About Me)
Many strings in the window start with _, and there are many nonsensical headers. For example, the section that seems to be for telephone numbers is labeled "Skiftetaster" (shift keys) and the two addresses on the address tab are labelled "Datoer" (Dates) and "Understøttelse" (Support).

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

I can confirm this bug and am already working on it. More will follow shortly.

[Mads Peter Rommedahl (lhademmor)]

I can confirm that so far the tab "_Indhold" (contents) and the "_Brugernavn:" (username) do still have unnecessary underscores in Gutsy beta.

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

This one is quite the nuisance. Originally it started out as a translations bug. It was caused by the fact by some bad translations which was made before the team was closed. It has how corrected meaning that every string in this packages are identical to the ones in upstream Gnome, and they are correct. I checked the file and those underscores are supposed to be there (they are supposed to be turned into the underlines that make hotkeys). So at this point the problem has to be that those string are not treated properly by the program. So I will at some point transfer this bug to the gnome-utils package but before I do that I would like to find out if this only happens when you use the program in other languages than danish. So somebody that has a danish version installed should start the english version of that program with the command
locale=C gnome-about-me
and check if the un-interpreted underscores are there as weel.
\TLE

[David Christiansen (drc01)]

Setting locale did't do anything, but when I ran:
LANG=C gnome-about-me
I got it in English. There was no underscored keyboard shortcut on either User Name or Contact at all.

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

After som headscratching I found that the about-me program is actually not present in gnome-utils but in gnome-control-center. However I just checked and those strings are correct in the LP versions in both feisty and gutsy, and it is correct in the source-code package in feisty but somehow is still wrong in the binary packages for both feisty and gutsy. I have no idea whats going on with this but either way this is not really a translation bug anymore, so as soon as I figure out whether to report it against gnome-control-center or rosetta I will close this one.

Regards and sorry about the long processing time of this bug. Kenneth Nielsen

[Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)]

Could you confirm whether the attached screenshot is broken?

That's what I get with latest language pack in Gutsy

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

That screenshot is _not_ broken. So I guess that solves it for gutsy.

For feisty I have included the information you requested.
The output of:
   find / -iname *control-center*.mo
is
   /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/control-center-2.0.mo
   /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/control-center-2.0.mo
   /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/control-center-2.0.mo
   /usr/share/locale-langpack/da/LC_MESSAGES/control-center-2.0.mo
and I have attached the last .mo file in the list
Thanks for the help

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

Hmm I was at some point wondering if we gad even gotten a laguage pack update for Danish for feisty so I went to synaptic and checked. It seems that both of these packages
   language-pack-da
   language-pack-gnome-da
are dated 2007-04-12 and there aren't any .mo-files in them. I am wondering if this may be linked to something else.
At some point I wrote Martin Pitt to ask him to delay the language-pack update for Danish for feisty because there was a very important correction I wanted to make it in there. At the end of the e-mail exchange it wasn't really clear what was going to happen. Is it possible that he stopped the updates for Danish without turning them back on later?
I have attached the email exchange as a text file.
Regards TLE

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Indeed I did not update the Danish langpacks in the last round because of this conversation. Can you please check the current updates in the PPA?

  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-langpack/ubuntu/ feisty main

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

Ahh ok I may not have communicated my intention very clearly. But just so that we are totally crystal. Everything concerning language pack updates for danish should now be in the normal manner, no exceptions of any kind.

I haven't had time for a thorough review of the language pack update but I can confirm that the issue mentioned above, and at least one other large issue has now been fixed.
Thanks for the help to the both of you

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

Ok one more things about the language pack update (Feisty). First of all on my machine the package system doesn't seem to register when this update has been installed. It just keeps telling me that there are these four packages ready for update even though they are installed. I don't know whether it is a problem with my system or with the packages or if it is just supposed to be like that for these testing packages.

On another note I was just informed of an ugly error in gnome-session today (This concerns mostly gutsy). So if it is at all possible it would be nice to have the LP version of gnome-session from today included in the gutsy release and possible in those updates for feisty. But I mean if it is to late then there's nothing to do about that, then it'll just be included in the next update. DON'T hold anything back on that account.
Regards TLE

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Is this still an issue with the current langpacks in feisty/gutsy-proposed and Hardy?

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

Now this bugreport has sort of evolved into including many subjects. Which one of the problems above should I check if still exist?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hm, "any" I think. :-) then we can make a list of things which are still broken to clarify this bug again. Thank you!

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

Ok the issues mentioned in this bug are the following:
1: wrong strings in about me dialog
2: a typo in gnome-session, that showed up in the log out dialog :(
3: the updating error associatied with the language packs (kept showing up as a new update even thoug it had been installed) only happened with the special repository, so I wont bother trying to check that since as far as I understand we use the proposed repository for this now.

In hardy, standard install
Both 1 & 2 are fixed

Gutsy standard install
Both 1 & 2 are fixed

Gutsy with "proposed" repository.
There did not seem to be any language-packs in gutsy-proposed at this time, so maybe it has now been moved to the ordinary repositories.

Regards Kenneth Nielsen

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Splendid. TLE, thanks a lot for verifying!