"Settings..." button does not appear translated in the UI

[Tomasz Dominikowski]

Binary package hint: update-manager

It does appear in the template, with a fairly cryptic "Settings…" string, but nevertheless the button does not appear translated in the UI of update manager in karmic current.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

It seems like this is currently not translatable, might be a gettext issue. A trivial fix is to apply:

--- data/glade/UpdateManager.ui 2009-09-24 11:29:09 +0000
+++ data/glade/UpdateManager.ui 2009-09-24 12:34:41 +0000
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
             <property name="spacing">12</property>
             <child>
               <object class="GtkButton" id="button_settings">
- <property name="label" translatable="yes">Settings&#x2026;</property>
+ <property name="label" translatable="yes">Settings...</property>
                 <property name="visible">True</property>
                 <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                 <property name="can_default">True</property>

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

For the record, i tried:

=== modified file 'data/glade/UpdateManager.ui'
--- data/glade/UpdateManager.ui 2009-09-24 15:50:01 +0000
+++ data/glade/UpdateManager.ui 2009-09-24 15:53:23 +0000
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
             <property name="spacing">12</property>
             <child>
               <object class="GtkButton" id="button_settings">
- <property name="label" translatable="yes">Settings...</property>
+ <property name="label" translatable="yes">Settings…</property>
                 <property name="visible">True</property>
                 <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                 <property name="can_default">True</property>

=== modified file 'po/de.po'
--- po/de.po 2009-09-06 20:41:05 +0000
+++ po/de.po 2009-09-24 15:54:44 +0000
@@ -2002,8 +2002,8 @@
 " ◦ Bei Verwendung einer Vorabversion von Ubuntu"

 #: ../data/glade/UpdateManager.ui.h:19
-msgid "Settings&#x2026;"
-msgstr ""
+msgid "Settings…"
+msgstr "Einstellungen…"

To see if it is a gettext issue and that does not work for me.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

But it appears in the mo file:

$ msgunfmt /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/update-manager.mo|grep -A2 Sett
...
msgid "Settings…"
msgstr "Einstellungen…"
...

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Comment #2 is wrong, with the unicode char in the .ui file it works correctly.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

The bug doesn't sound like a gettext (or intltool) bug to me. I'd say it points at GtkBuilder issue, but I haven't at all looked into it, so it'd just a very wild guess.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.125.3

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update-manager (1:0.125.3) karmic; urgency=low

  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg.hardy:
    - fix upgrades from hardy by allowing the removal of sysvutils
  * data/glade/UpdateManager.ui:
    - remove dialog title for cache open progress (LP: #435653)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py:
    - add translators hints for some strings (LP: #433116)
  * UpdateManager/Core/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py:
    - fixed typo (thanks to Henrique P. Machado)
  * UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py:
    - fix i18n issues with gtkbuilder
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py:
    - stop kblueplugd kbluetooth when the upgrade starts to
      avoid them crashing during the upgrade
      (thanks to Jonathan Riddell)
  * UpdateManager/backend/InstallBackendAptdaemon.py
    - setup correct window icon
  * data/glade/UpdateManager.ui:
    - switch from unicode &#x2026; to "..." until the issues with
      gettext is resolved (LP: #434107)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:41:22 +0200

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks Danilo for looking into this. I was initially thinking it might be fixed via intltool-extract by simply unescaping the char, but I guess its best if glade just writes it out without escaping into the .ui file.