"Generic USB %s Reader" shows untranslated

[Ricardo Pérez López]

Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

When I go to Places -> Computer in my fully updated Karmic, all my internal USB card readers shows untranslated labels in English rather than Spanish: "Generic USB CF Reader", "Generic USB MS Reader", "Generic USB SD Reader", and so on...

Moreover, I can't translate it because there's no "Generic USB..." string in the gnome-disk-utility Launchpad template:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+pots/gnome-disk-utility/es/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=Generic

I attach an screenshot to illustrate the problem.

[David Planella (dpm)]

I'm not sure where this string comes from, but perhaps from nautilus or gvfs instead of gnome-disk-utility?

[Ethan Bissett (draimus-deactivatedaccount)]

All gnome apps will use those strings. If you look under Places->Computer nautilus also uses those names.

Gnome seems to get the names from /sys. For example if I look in /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-5/1-5:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0, the vendor file contains "Generic" and the model file contains "USB SD Reader". I'm not 100% sure where these strings are coming from though.

Udev knows what they are because the show up in the /var/log/udev logfile. But I don't know if it's reporting them as it sees them or if it's setting them itself.

I found one of the strings in the Linux kernel sources but not any of the others. I have not found them in the udev rules or binaries. It could be that the strings come from the device itself, which would be annoying.

I don't know if that helps at all. I only found this out, and the launchpad bug, because one of my card reader slots is mislabeled in gnome (says "Mini SD" instead of "Micro SD") and I was trying to figure out how to change the text string.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

devicekit-disks issue, comment from upstream:

"We just show the name obtained from the device descriptors. Unfortunately there
is no way to localize it - in fact, in general we don't even know what kind of
media (e.g. CF, MS, SD, ...) each LUN uses.

One possible fix is to match the usb vid/pid like we do here

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/DeviceKit/DeviceKit-disks/tree/data/95-devkit-disks.rules?id=009#n87

and then we can show the appropriate localized name. However, maintaining
whitelists for this generally does not work. If you want to, file a bug here

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=DeviceKit-disks

including the USB vid/pid."

reassigning , thanks.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is the name that the device tells us, and maintaining huge vid/pid lists and translations would be an inordinate amount of effort IMHO.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Marking the Ubuntu Translations task as Won't Fix in accordance with Martin Pitt's comment.