German translation of "Create New Note" template breaks functionality

[Mirko Hessel-von Molo]

Working with 18.04.01, package 1.15.9-0ubuntu1

When Tomboy 1.15.9 is used in a German locale, new notes are created with a nonsensical title.

In the English locale, the title would be eg. "Note from 2018-10-28, 02:58:34.123".
In German, it is "Notiz von JJJJ-10-TT, 02:58:34.123". Clearly the date part is nonsense.

The reason for this is that the string "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff" creating the time stamp (line 483 in NoteManager.cs) is first fed into Catalog.GetString() and then into DateTime.Now.ToString; i.e. it is translated before being processed.

Now in the German .po file, there is "JJJJ-MM-dd, HH:mm:ss.fff" as a translation for "yyyy-MM-dd, HH:mm:ss.fff". This breaks the "ToString" functionality and leads to the above mentioned effects.

It is easy to correct this: either remove the call of Catalog.GetString() for the above mentioned string, or remove the "translation" of this string (if for some reason the call is required for other languages).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alexander Adam (7ql6)]

Something is strange in general with the localization stuff in Tomboy.
See the recording in the attachment:

Everything in the UI is in English (Menus, Columns, etc.) but when I create a new note, it's title is in German and runs into that particular bug.

What is interesting here as well: it is working when I load Gnome as a Desktop environment but it shows the buggy behaviour on KDE.

[Alexander Adam (7ql6)]

This bug is still present in Tomboy 1.15.9-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 20.04.

[Alexander Adam (7ql6)]

Upstream bug seems to be this one: https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy/issues/101