doesn't display translated desktop names

[Sebastien Bacher]

Binary package hint: unity-place-applications

The current maverick version displays english names

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

The problem boils down to this:

I am using g_app_info_get_display_name() to look up the name of the app. This *should* take the current locale into account. Seems that this is broken.

I am not very knowledgeable on this, but it appears that the translations are split from the .desktop files out into some .cache files like /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_DK.utf8.cache.

Assuming that this is right, the problem is really that this behaviour breaks glib, which would mean that all apps relying on GAppInfos are broken, in which case The Right Fix (TM) is to patch glib (or revert to the expected behaviour).

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

I am now initializing gettext on startup - this hopefully triggers the right gettext stuff in glib.

Regarding my last comment - I can see that we are indeed shipping some patches for glib to fetch external translations

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

seb128 (or someone using a translated desktop) - can you please confirm whether or not this is fixed in trunk?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I will try when I'm back from GUADEC

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

tried with 0.2.8 and it's unfortunately not fixed.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

was fixed release last week.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

(0.2.14-0ubuntu1)