Translations should be stripped from the gwibber.desktop file

After a conversation with pitti, it seems that for packages using python-distutils-extra there is no easy way of adding the X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain key. The langpack.mk rule assumes there is a po/Makefile file where to obtain the domain name from, which is not the case with apps using the p-d-e build system. Here's an extract of the conversation on #ubuntu-desktop:

<pitti> dpm: hmm -- the current build system doesn't even know about which gettext domain it's using
<pitti> dpm: if we know, or would assume that it's the same as the project name, we might just create a po/Makefile with GETTEXT_PACKAGE=$projectname in python-mkdebian perhaps

The best approach seems to be for now to add the X-Ubuntu-GNOME-Domain key to the upstream sources. This will have the benefit that it will work both for Ubuntu and for OpenSUSE. That's what the linked branch does.

We need to add the X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gwibber line inside /usr/share/applications/gwibber-preferences.desktop file, too, in order to get the System->Preferences->Broadcast Preferences menu entry translated.

Hi Ricardo,

Thanks for the comment and for working on translations bugs :)

El dv 19 de 03 de 2010 a les 17:19 +0000, en/na Ricardo Pérez López va
escriure:
> We need to add the X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gwibber line inside
> /usr/share/applications/gwibber-preferences.desktop file, too, in order
> to get the System->Preferences->Broadcast Preferences menu entry
> translated.
>

That's exactly what the patch does. The gwibber-preferences.desktop file
is the gwibber-preferences.desktop.in one you see in the diff on the
attached branch. This file is used as a basis to create
gwibber-preferences.desktop when the package is built.

We have chosen to use the X-GNOME-Gettext-Domain=gwibber key instead of
the X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gwibber one so that this can be included in
the upstream file directly (in Ubuntu we recognise both) and work for
all distros (in OpenSUSE it should work as in Ubuntu, other distros will
just ignore it).

Great! Thank you very much, David.

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 2.29.93-0ubuntu1

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gwibber (2.29.93-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Use MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH for max length instead of hard coding 140
    - Changed the views to not emit the entire doc as a value
    - Set default focus to the text input widget (LP: #528302)
    - Made a string translatable, requested by the translations
      team (LP: #534667)
    - Patch from Gabor Kelemen setting translation domain for .ui
      files (LP: #538846)
    - Mark strings translatable, thanks Kelemen Gábor (LP: #520462)
    - Added X-GNOME-Gettext-Domain to allow translations of the desktop
      files to be loaded at runtime (LP: #538851
    - Use the desktopcouch API for excluding the DB and handle
      errors (LP: #539583)
    - Set window icons properly so they scale nicely
    - Set account IDs in desktopcouch to force merging on sync instead of
      creating dupes (LP: #535263)
  * debian/patches/lp_report_to_ubuntu.patch
    - File bugs against the package (LP: #551132)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:20:24 -0400

I'm leaving the translations task as open to keep track of it. The most important part of the bug (adding the gettext domain to the desktop.in file) has been fixed, but I still see some inline translations in the desktop file:

$ cat /usr/share/applications/gwibber.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Gwibber
GenericName=Social Client
X-GNOME-FullName=Gwibber Social Client
X-GNOME-FullName[ar]=Gwibber عميل الشبكات الاجتماعية
X-GNOME-FullName[bg]=Социален клиент Gwibber
X-GNOME-FullName[bn]=Gwibber সামাজিক ক্লায়েন্ট
X-GNOME-FullName[de]=Gwibber Anwendung für Soziale Netzwerke
X-GNOME-FullName[fi]=Gwibber – sosiaaliset mediat
X-GNOME-FullName[nl]=Gwibber sociaal programma
X-GNOME-FullName[pl]=Klient społecznościowy Gwibber
X-GNOME-FullName[pt_BR]=Cliente Social Gwibber
X-GNOME-FullName[sk]=Gwibber sociálny klient
Type=Application
Comment=Update your microblog and follow your contacts' statuses
Exec=gwibber
Icon=gwibber
Categories=GTK;GNOME;Network;
X-GNOME-Gettext-Domain=gwibber

I've also noticed that the gwibber.desktop file is again under version control. This should not be necessary, since it is regenerated from the gwibber.desktop.in upon every build.

In any case, I'm lowering the importance of the translations task, since translations can now at least be loaded