indicator-applet displays application descriptions only in English

[Tomasz Dominikowski]

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

As you can see here http://imgur.com/8KPTI.png

The descriptions of applications are displayed in English rather than in my native language. They used to be displayed in my native language when the drop-down menu wasn't so wide and the text was cut-off, so I assume that this is some sort of a regression. Those strings are all translated in my native language in their respective applications, so the source for them does exist.

[mahfiaz (mahfiaz)]

Since it appears in guest session and in default panel configuration in a very noticeable place, it should be considered important.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The descriptions are displayed translated if there is an indicator-message translation file installed for the locale

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could be something to announce on the translator lists

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

First we need to have them in Launchpad and than will announce them on the translators ML.
Thanks!

[Ted Gould (ted)]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 12:58 +0000, Adi Roiban wrote:
> First we need to have them in Launchpad and than will announce
> them on the translators ML.

I think this is them (though I could very well be wrong)

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/indicator-messages/+pots/indicator-messages

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

This is the template, but I can not find those strings in the template and the import queue is empty.

Right now it contains only 3 strings:
https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/indicator-messages/+pots/indicator-messages/en_GB/+translate

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

Make sure that the build script is updating the translation templates.

More info about verifying translation uploads can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Internationalisation#Verifying%20translation%20uploads

[Ted Gould (ted)]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 18:52 +0000, Adi Roiban wrote:
> This is the template, but I can not find those strings in the template
> and the import queue is empty.
>
> Right now it contains only 3 strings:
> https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/indicator-messages/+pots/indicator-messages/en_GB/+translate

Yes, it should only have three strings. All of the other strings that
the package displays are from the .desktop files of the applications
that it's displaying.

I'm not even 100% sure that the "%s (%d)" one needs to be translated,
but I figured some languages might want the count on the left-hand side.

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

OK. So those translations are fetced from the .desktop files of each apps.

I'm testing this with the latest version of indicator-mesages and it does not work.

Also looking at the changelog I don't see anything mentioning this fix.
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/indicator-messages/+changelog

Ted, is this problem fixed on you system ?

Cheers!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is fixed once you have an indicator-messages.mo installed, the strings don't come from this source but the translation init will work only if the gettext domain is installed

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

Thanks for the info, Sebasten.

Right now I only have indicator-applet.mo and indicator-session.mo, in an up to date Ubuntu Karmic Beta.

I will look into this problem and see if I can test it.

[David Planella (dpm)]

This seems to have been fixed on my system for some time now, at least for the languages I've got installed

$ dpkg -S indicator-messages.mo
language-pack-gnome-ca-base: /usr/share/locale-langpack/ca/LC_MESSAGES/indicator-messages.mo
language-pack-gnome-es: /usr/share/locale-langpack/es/LC_MESSAGES/indicator-messages.mo
language-pack-gnome-de-base: /usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/indicator-messages.mo

If I understand the problem correctly, the issue will only affect those languages without a translation in https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/indicator-messages/+pots/indicator-messages, since the indicator-messages.mo file will only get installed in language packs when there is a translation present. For the languages listed in there, this will affect Basque, Czech and Greek.

I'll announce this on the translators ML on Monday and aso contact the Basque, Czech and Greek translation teams.