Desktop entries of some newly installed applications are untranslated until next reboot

[AsciiWolf]

Desktop entries of some newly installed applications are untranslated until next reboot on non-English Ubuntu 18.04 system. This happens only for some packages (for example gnome-games-app) and happens both when installing using GNOME Software as well as when using apt.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use non-English Ubuntu 18.04 system.
2. Install "gnome-games-app".
3. See the application entry in GNOME Shell Overview.
4. Restart the computer.
5. See the application entry in GNOME Shell Overview.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report!

I think it's sufficient to relogin, but otherwise I have experienced the same.

Can you please submit an upstream issue about it, and then post the link to it here?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues

If it can be fixed, it should reasonably be done upstream.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Reported upstream.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/77

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

It looks like it happens with apps that have "X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain" instead of having the translated strings directly in the desktop file, so it may be some bug in gettext or another component that Ubuntu uses.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I saw the upstream response. So this bug will probably keep being open for now.

Tested in Unity (16.04); the issue is not present there. Possibly unity has some code which may be useful for an Ubuntu patch of gnome-shell.