[i18n] Some buttons and edit entries on applets dialog cannot be translated into Chinese, still show English

Bug #200991 reported by cathyli
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Moblin Applets
Invalid
Medium
ToddBrandt

Bug Description

Description:
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Some buttons and edit entries on applets dialog cannot be translated into Chinese, still show English.

Reproduced steps:
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1. Install language package to support specific language, such as Chinese language by command "apt-get install language-pack-zh language-pack-gnome-zh language-support-zh".
2. Generate .mo file by command "msgfmt -o zh_CN.mo zh_CN.po"
3. Copy zh_CN.mo file to /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/, I found moblin-applets-1.0.0.mo file has already existed in this path, which will take effect to localization moblin-applets to Chinese.
4. Install language-selector by command "apt-get install language-selector", then set default language to Chinese.
5. Restart hildon-desktop to make language setting take effect, then launch applets to check.

Current result:
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In step5, some buttons and edit entries on applets dialog cannot be translated into Chinese, still show English. Here is the detailed info.
About Me: Name/Username/First:/Last:/Address/Email cannot be translated to Chinese, show English.
Background: OK/Cancel buttons cannot be translated to Chinese, show English.
Keyboard: Selected layout/Name cannot be translated to Chinese, show English.
Sound: Mute/sync/tab name cannot be translated to Chinese, show English.
Resolution: Resolution dialog title cannot be translated to Chinese, show English.
About Device: Dialog Title, system info cannot be translated to Chinese, show English.
Date Time: Dialog title/Items cannot be translated to Chinese, show English. Only Help/Close button be translated to Chinese correctly.
Touch Screen: Cannot translate info Chinese.

Expected result:
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In step5, all should be translated into correct Chinese characters after set locale to zh_CN.

cathyli (cathy-li)
Changed in moblin-applets:
assignee: nobody → todd-e-brandt
importance: Undecided → Medium
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cathyli (cathy-li) wrote :
Changed in moblin-applets:
milestone: none → m10
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ToddBrandt (todd-e-brandt) wrote :

This is a problem of *localization* which we (i.e. the moblin team) are not responsible for. We are only responsible for *internationalization* which is enabling the packages to be translated. The moblin applets package already has some localization done because it inherited much of its code from gnome-control-center, which was already localized for 79 languages. Therefore many of the strings are going to be untranslated and this is the correct behavior.

Changed in moblin-applets:
status: New → Invalid
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cathyli (cathy-li) wrote :

Close it because it belongs to i10n-localization bug.

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