Comment 3 for bug 647387

This issue surfaced when one of the translators of GMPC used a newline in the desktop file markup (but the string was shared with several C files) leading to not showing the application entry at all.

Would it be possible to always generate a separate entry (with a new msgctxt) in the po file for strings from desktop files? (A bit of developer / translator effort.)

Another alternative would be to provide special syntax to specify the msgctxt in desktop files (since it's possible in C). E.g., _u_ instead of _ (Is there some possible syntax?). (Results in no effort for anyone but the developers are able to fix related bugs easily.)