XFCE doesn't understand X-GNOME-Gettext-Domain

[Ilya Bizyaev]

That is invisible in Unity, but noticeable in Xfce.
I attach the modified simple-scan.desktop file with the translation.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

The translations are done using gettext, so they should work. This suggests that Unity is not reading them correctly perhaps.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

I tried here enabling Russian and the translations show correctly - what version of Ubuntu are you using?

[Ilya Bizyaev (bizyaev-game-deactivatedaccount)]

Maybe I have not expressed myself correctly. The application name and description are translated properly in Unity, but are in English in Xfce.
I am using Ubuntu 16.04.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Could you edit /usr/share/applications/simple-scan.desktop and change the last line:

X-GNOME-Gettext-Domain=simple-scan

to:

X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gedit

And then restart XFCE? It might be that XFCE doesn't support X-GNOME-Gettext-Domain. You could also try shotwell as this also uses X-GNOME-Gettext-Domain instead of X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain.

[Ilya Bizyaev (bizyaev-game-deactivatedaccount)]

I have inspected all the applications installed on my computer and their translations to Russian in XFce and Unity. Here are the results:

1) Shotwell simply does not provide Russian translation for its shortcut, so, it's in English both in XFce an Unity.
2) Remmina's shortcut is in Russian in Unity and in English in XFce, although there's no Russian translation in remmina.desktop. So, Unity seems to have its own message catalogs!
Same with the Simple Scan.

Then I tried your advice.
Replacing the last line with:
"X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=simple-scan" fixed the issue!
I attach the result.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

OK, so the issue is XFCE doesn't understand X-GNOME-Gettext-Domain - I've linked the XFCE package (libxfce4util) that should do this.

However, given this is not a commonly used feature, I'll drop this from simple-scan so it works anyway. Ubuntu automatically adds X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain when the package is built.

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[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

Is this still an issue with Xfce/Xubuntu in a recent supported release (focal, impish, jammy)?