Strings in the side panel are not translatable

[Gabor Kelemen]

Binary package hint: gwibber

The stream names in the side pane are not translatable. These are from the gwibber/gwui.py file, in the generate_streams function. The problem with these is that the stream names are expected to be untranslated:

    for stream in ["messages", "replies", "images", "private"]:
      items.append({
        "name": stream.capitalize(),

This is simply not localizable, we need proper _("Messages") _("Replies") etc calls.

      default_streams = self.services[account["protocol"]]["default_streams"]

      if len(default_streams) > 1:
        for feature in default_streams:
          aname = self.features[feature]["stream"]
          item["items"].append({
            "name": aname.capitalize(),

This is about the same, except that the names are coming in this case from the service descriptions under gwibber/microblog/

It is also interesting that when I marked the Search item for translation, the Search bar did not appeared anymore. Translating the Home and Sent items seemed to work with simple _() calls.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

This definitely needs to be translated and need some code changes because is still happening under 2.29.92-1, in this moment would be great if Ken or Ryan could teleport to this place and take a look into code. Thanks!

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Is this bug related to bug 520462?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 2.30.0-0ubuntu1

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gwibber (2.30.0-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - gwibber crashed with KeyError in action() (LP: #520492)
    - Strings in the side panel are not translatable (LP: #538981)
    - Strings in the *mako templates are not translatable (LP: #538987)
    - gwibber crashed with AttributeError in action() (LP: #444654)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:22:09 -0400

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

Reopening.
The situation improved, but still not perfect - see attached screenshot.

[David Planella (dpm)]

As the "Search" string seems to be somewhat special, I've filed bug 567127 separately.

As for the remaining untranslatable strings (Messages, Replies, etc.):

    for stream in ["messages", "replies", "images", "private"]:
      items.append({
        "name": stream.capitalize(),

Perhaps deferred translations and the N_() macro could be used:

http://docs.python.org/library/gettext.html#deferred-translations

The other untranslatable strings I'm not sure where they are shown on the UI:

      default_streams = self.services[account["protocol"]]["default_streams"]

Ken, Ryan, is it ok to reopen this bug, or would you prefer a new one to track the remaining issues?

[Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng)]

"As for the remaining untranslatable strings (Messages, Replies, etc.):"

These were fixed here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gwibber-committers/gwibber/trunk/revision/727

"The other untranslatable strings I'm not sure where they are shown on the UI:"

They are visible on my screenshot - the same Messages, Replies, etc, strings, only that these are specific to the various providers and come from gwibber/microblog/util/const.py - here the internal, provider specific stream names are translated to the user visible names: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Egwibber-committers/gwibber/trunk/annotate/head%3A/gwibber/microblog/util/const.py#L117

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

It's fine to re-open this. I have a patch locally localizing the streams from the protocols but haven't looked at search. This will have to wait though and go in as an update after lucid.

[David Planella (dpm)]

There are still a few untranslatable strings in Gwibber maverick (highlighted in the screenshot). Ken, is that patch to make them translatable still waiting in the queue? Thanks!

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

The streams localization fix had gone into trunk a while ago and been released, but was dropped in the branch merge merging in the sqlite branch. I have ported it to the new code and it will go out in the next release. I think I also have a fix for the search streams.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 2.31.4-0ubuntu1

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gwibber (2.31.4-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Merged back in i18n fixes from before the sqlite merge, they seem to
      have gotten lost (LP: #538981)
    - Make "Lists" translatable
    - Make "Search" translatable
    - Order the result of new_items by time so we get notifications in the correct
      order (LP: #499323)
    - Only notify for the last 10 messages (except responses), as it is that is
      100 seconds of notifications displaying.
    - Always notify for responses (mentions)
    - Cache avatars for notifications and client (LP: #527446)
    - Fixed scrolling problems including scrollwheel support (LP: #611276)
  * debian/gwibber.desktop
    - Changed the key looked at for autostart
  * debian/control
    - Added depends on python-oauth, required for buzz
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:27:45 -0400