Colour palettes not translatable

[Kris]

At the moment there all colour names in the palettes are not translatable. They popup in the interface as English tooltips.
Hover the mouse over the the colour palette bar at the bottom or hover over the colour palette window (CTRL+shift+W)...
Making 30% gray, red, yellow, ... list as the local language would greatly enhance the professional impression of Inkscape.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

I'll try to take a look before 0.49...

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Patch committed in the trunk, revision 9870.
Translation restricted to real strings, names with RVB value only are not marked translatable.
About 400 new strings added the po template...

[Jon A. Cruz (jon-joncruz)]

Seems good for compiled-in data. For a long term solution we will probably need something that will work with palettes added in the field (the CREATE color format includes translations http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Swatches_-_colour_file_format/Propositions#Proposition_G )

However, for this change I think we need to have a translation context added to keep things to pulling only color names, and not random UI strings.
http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-I18N.html#g-dpgettext2

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

> I think we need to have a translation context

Ok. It also needs an additional check for no-c-format strings. I'll commit it (and context) later today.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Context, no-c-format and comments committed in the trunk, revision 9871.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

@Jon, is there a plan to implement the long term solution before 0.49?
If not, do you see something else that must be done now before closing this report?

[Jon A. Cruz (jon-joncruz)]

It is expected that newer formats will be added for 0.49, but this fix probably is good for the .gpl ones. Given that the context key is fairly explicit, I don't foresee any significant issues.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Reopening. Some of the palettes added in the translation list are too complex or don't really need to be translated. I suggest that we just keep Inkscape default, SVG and tango in the list and make all the others untranslatable.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Palette list reduced as of revision 10072.