[ffe] Add support for Qt Designer UI files

[David Planella]

Qt Designer files are XML files that describe the UI of a Qt application, and are the Glade .ui file equivalent in the Qt world.

Their format definition can be found here:

- http://qt-project.org/doc/designer-ui-file-format.html

While many Qt projects use Qt's own i18n/l10n framework, others rely on gettext. Some examples are core Ubuntu applications such as the Ubuntu One client and Checkbox, which have started to migrate to Qt-based user interfaces while overriding Qt's i18n system and using gettext instead.

These cases need a way to extract translatable messages from Qt's .ui files, merge the translations in .pot files and thus integrate with the gettext workflow.

[dobey (dobey)]

For the record, Ubuntu One is using gettext/intltool already for the Qt apps, and not using the Qt Linguist features.

[Sandro Mani (sandromani)]

Shouldn't the result of getXMLstring be passed to entity_decode first? Something along the attached patch. Perhaps I'm not doing this as was planned (basically I'm running a regex-replace on the generate ui_XXX.h files to replace QApplication::translate calls with gettext ones, see [1]), but without entity_decode, the msgids of strings containing html markup does not match what is actually in the ui_XXX.h files, plus having all html-escaped characters in the po files is somewhat unplesant for translators.

[1] https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/blob/master/cmake/gettextizeui.cmake

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[dobey (dobey)]

This apparently needs a freeze exception to be able to get the new version into Ubuntu which contains this. :-/

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Are you asking to upload a patch to just add this feature or the new upstream release?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new upstream release

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the corresponding changes/requested upload is https://code.launchpad.net/~dobey/ubuntu/vivid/intltool/release-0-51-0/+merge/252235

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Looks good from a sponsoring perspective. Can we get somebody from the release team to review this?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

<infinity> dholbach: Alright, the "new feature" parts of that look reasonably isolated, go for it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package intltool - 0.51.0-1

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intltool (0.51.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ Rodney Dawes ]
  * New upstream release.
    - Support Qt Designer UI files (LP: #953342)
    - Do not include full path to source files in template. (LP: #1316777)
    - Support spaces around '=' in key files. (LP: #1395561)
    - Support single quotes in intltool-extract regex. (LP: #1034153)
  * debian/watch:
    - Fix search pattern URL to be https.
  * debian/control.in:
    - Bump standards version.

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * debian/control{,.in}: Update for experimental

 -- Rodney Dawes <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:17:42 +0000