Python + GtkBuilder: translations not shown

[Gabor Karsay]

Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
Awn and Awn Extras: 0.4.0-0ubuntu1 (installed from Ubuntu repository lucid/universe)
Newest translations installed.

Cairo Clock translations are not shown, although they exist.

Steps to reproduce: Switch to French locale, be sure you have the translation files (due to bug #583948 they might not be there), open Cairo Clock's preferences. The preference dialog should be fully translated but it isn't.

I understand no python at all, but my assumption is that this is connected with GtkBuilder. The other python-applets have translated preference dialogs, but they are all coded in the python script itself, whereas Cairo Clock uses a .ui-file and GtkBuilder.

[Gabor Karsay (gabor-karsay)]

I found a possible solution at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574520

Adding these lines to cairo-clock.py helps:

import gtk.glade
gtk.glade.bindtextdomain("awn-extras", "/usr/share/locale/")
gtk.glade.textdomain("awn-extras")

I guess it's not a good solution though. In the aforementioned Gnome bug are more details, also a comment from Ubuntu's Sebastien Bacher.

And there are more applets affected, e.g. the weather applet.

[Gabor Karsay (gabor-karsay)]

This is a proposed patch.
Testing: Start awn with awn-extras from trunk with LANGUAGE=fr. Open the preferences dialog e.g. in Cairo Clock or the Weather applet (any python applet, that uses gtkbuilder). It is completely English (except for stock-items like close-button).
Install patched awn-extras; now these dialogs should be translated in French.

It's a selfmade patch (meaning not by bazaar), assuming to patch directory "awn-extras". Tested with "patch -p0 < python-gtkbuilder-locale.patch".

[onox (onox)]

Fixed in revision 1354. As I only have english and dutch translation stuff on my system (got lot of output telling french wasn't supported) and because dutch translations in awn-extras are like 0%, I have absolutely no idea whether this is gonna work.

[Gabor Karsay (gabor-karsay)]

Thanks, it works for me. I tested with this command:
$ LANGUAGE=fr avant-window-navigator
so there is no need to install a new locale for the whole system (I wasn't aware of that possibility at the beginning). I have no error messages about french locale, just some markup problems that are fixed in newest translations, so basically everything seems fine.