The online account g-c-c interface doesn't support i18n

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli]

The online accounts UI loads the plugins integration from some .application files. Those are not translated, not translatable.

What needs to be done, is:
- rename the .application in .application.in
- ensuring that upstream have an application.in files with translatable tags (using _, as in <_description>I want to be translated</_description>). Example [1]
- add a <translations> tag containing the upstream domain
- then, at build time:

1. Running intltool-extract files.applications.in so that it gets merged into a files.applications.in.h file. If you are using intltool already in your build system (and you probably are), this should be happening already and you can skip to step 2.

2. Including the .in file somewhere in the build system (like po/POTFILES.in for Python apps and Makefiles.am for C/vala apps) so that it's merged into the .pot file. In Python, it's just a matter of adding it as an extra line to the po/POTFILES.in file (example [2]):

[type: gettext/xml]data/gwibber.application.in

3. And running intltool-merge --no-translations -x -u foo.applications.in foo.application to create the xml upstream file which is shipped
- online-account (the g-c-c plugin) should be patched to load them, looking at the <translations> tag and gettext (package, string)

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dpm/+junk/testintl/view/head:/data/gwibber.application.in
[2] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dpm/+junk/testintl/view/head:/po/POTFILES.in

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Upstream Empathy bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684281

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 3.5.92-0ubuntu2

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empathy (3.5.92-0ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_fix_uoa_plugin_translation.patch:
    backport and adapt a fix so that the uoa g-c-c plugin is translated
    (LP: #1052375)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:05:35 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center-signon - 0.0.17-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center-signon (0.0.17-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Handle translated .application files (LP: #1052375)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:21:28 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-lens-photos - 0.6-0ubuntu1

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unity-lens-photos (0.6-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - The online account g-c-c interface doesn't support i18n (LP: #1052375)
    - Desktop file does not validate with desktop-file-validate (LP: #1051949)
    - Unity-lens-photo takes all cpu (LP: #1047739)
    - no pictures previews from dash (LP: #1049268)
    - unity-lens-photos crashed with TypeError in constructor(): Argument 0
      does not allow None as a value (LP: #1047754)
    - Older results from Shotwell are not correctly sorted when they contain
      photos without an exposure time (LP: #1049561)
    - Description of application should be ‘Photos search plugin’ (LP: #1050361)
    - Unity-lens-photo can only search one tag at a time (LP: #1047740)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:17:30 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-scope-gdocs - 0.3-0ubuntu1

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unity-scope-gdocs (0.3-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - allow translating the .application file (LP: #1052375)
    - Dash duplicated in "Show accounts that integrate with" (LP: #1025583)
  * -debian/patches/desktop_file.patch
    - no longer needed
  * debian/source/include-binaries
    - add __pycache__/build_i18n_ext.cpython-32.pyc until we can figure out
      why dpkg is complaining about it
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:57:30 -0400

[David Planella (dpm)]

This is not completely fixed in Shotwell. I've filed bug 1056698 as a follow-up.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Not sure if I should change the status or file new bugs, but this does not seem fixed on my system for Gwibber and Shotwell: their messages in the Online Accounts integration panel are still in English.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Tracked down what prevented translations from loading in Gwibber and filed follow-up bug 1068126

[Hendrik Schrieber (hennekn)]

Seems to be fixed for all. Follow-ups are also Fix Released.