desktop context not localized

[frank]

[Impact]

GNOME Flashback desktop is not localized into German.

[Test Case]

1. Enable German locale (de_DE.UTF-8).
2. Log into the GNOME Flashback (Metacity) session.
3. Right-click on the desktop to open the context menu.
4. It should be in German, not in English.

[Regression Potential]

The regression can be that the translation is wrong. The German translation was done by me (Dmitry Shachnev), but it was reviewed and corrected by Tim Sabsch.

[Original Description]

Hi,

at least in german environment the rightclick menu is not localized (and also the home-link).

see screenshot attached

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

Looking at https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons/+pots/desktop-icons it seems like this package is already translated and have been for a while.

Since I am not quite certain how (or where) to check if translations are included, I've added Ubuntu translations. They hopefully know more if we should expect to find these translations in a language pack or similar.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Did you possibly switch to German as display language recently? Have you rebooted since you did so?

[frank (frankwu)]

I had installed in german and rebooted many times. But i got same result after switch from english back to german

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

@frank: I see. Can you please run this command in terminal and let us know what it outputs:

echo $(gettext -d desktop-icons 'Display Settings')

[frank (frankwu)]

frank@frank-G5-U20:~
$ echo $(gettext -d desktop-icons 'Display Settings')
Anzeigeeinstellungen
frank@frank-G5-U20:~
$

so correctly translated

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

So your German language packs seem to be in order (I would have been surprised otherwise). I'm out of ideas for now, unfortunately. It may be a subtle configuration issue.

It would be good if you could describe step by step how to reproduce the issue. I for one cannot reproduce it on my Ubuntu 20.04.

[frank (frankwu)]

you can set language to german and see german context-menu on right-clicking the desktop? and your home-icon is named "Persönlicher Ordner" like in gnome-panel?

for me it looks like on desktop the language-"file" is not loaded/used.

i tried your step with Parts of the Context-Menu-Entries and most of them are not translated

frank@frank-G5-U20:~
$ echo $(gettext -d desktop-icons 'Home')
Home
frank@frank-G5-U20:~
$ echo $(gettext -d desktop-icons 'New Folder')
Neuer Ordner
frank@frank-G5-U20:~
$ echo $(gettext -d desktop-icons 'Placement')
Placement
frank@frank-G5-U20:~
$ echo $(gettext -d desktop-icons 'Sort by')
Sort by
frank@frank-G5-U20:~
$ echo $(gettext -d desktop-icons 'Open Terminal')
Open Terminal

maybe "Display Settings" is used from another application? but context-menu is also not translated...like the "New Folder" where gettext shows translation

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

  apport-collect 1882531

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you also try if you get the issue in a GNOME or Ubuntu session or is that specific to fallback?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The screenshot in comment #1 appears to be nautilus-desktop. Not gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons

[frank (frankwu)]

i have tested in ubuntu-session there is german context-menu on rightclick. problem is only on gnome-flashback

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please remember to run the command from comment #9.

[frank (frankwu)]

apport information

[frank (frankwu)]

apport information

[frank (frankwu)]

apport information

[frank (frankwu)]

had run the apport-command now, authorized, it looks like apport added some more comments here with debug-data

ubuntu-bug was not working because i installed gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons as proposed package...now it looks like in flashback desktop is still handled by nautilus...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1881115/comments/7

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

turns out gnome-flashback reimplement the desktop handling themselve, reassigning

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Last update to de translations in gnome-flashback has been ~1 year ago:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-flashback/-/blob/master/po/de.po
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-flashback/-/blob/gnome-3-36/po/de.po

[frank (frankwu)]

can i help here? how do i generate a full de.po to be translated or do i need to compare existing de.po with any existing (fully translated)? do i need to recompile flashback or can i put the po-file somewhere in filesystem?

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Needed things are now translated - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-flashback/-/commit/6efa16c2c7aad3091bd3a9829aa982ef6ae85e05. :)

Dmitry, should I make new release?

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

> Dmitry, should I make new release?

If you think the other changes in gnome-3-36 branch are important bugfixes then yes, please make a new release (and one for 3.37 too).

Otherwise I can make a new upload only with updated translations. I also submitted a Russian translation to l10n.gnome.org a few days ago, but it's not reviewed yet.

[frank (frankwu)]

needs the po file compiled in flashback or can i replace file on my system?

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

You need gnome-flashback.mo that is generated at build time, but please be patient... There will be new release.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

This is now fixed in the development Ubuntu release (gnome-flashback 3.37.3). A fix for stable release (Ubuntu 20.04) will be available a bit later.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello frank, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-flashback into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-flashback/3.36.4-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[frank (frankwu)]

gnome-flashback focal-proposed (3.36.4-0ubuntu1) works, thank you, bug can be closed

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Frank, thanks for testing. Marking as verified accordingly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-flashback - 3.36.4-0ubuntu1

---------------
gnome-flashback (3.36.4-0ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release (LP: #1892628).
    - Update lock screen window on monitor changes (LP: #1891855).
    - Don't lock screen on suspend if automatic screen lock is disabled
      (LP: #1891681).
    - Updated translations (LP: #1882531).

 -- Dmitry Shachnev <email address hidden> Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:04:59 +0300

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-flashback has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.