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openoffice.org package

  1. Bug #512395
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 512395

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Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng) wrote : Re: Openoffice.org's .desktop files do not contain translation domain info

Correct, OpenOffice usually does not use gettext. ooo-build does, for the .desktop files (and only for those): http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ooo-build/ooo-build/tree/po

But then, localizing these is not really possible in Ubuntu, despite the fact that they are changed: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/openoffice/3.2.0-lucid/annotate/head%3A/ubuntu/desktop-templates.diff

Then, there is this bunch of po files: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/openoffice/3.2.0-lucid/annotate/head%3A/ubuntu/desktop-translations.diff

from a 2 years old export of the now disabled template. This is what makes the desktop files localized somewhat - but, not dynamically, as it is for most of the other packages. It is also impossible to add new translations or change the existing ones (that's what I want, there is an ugly typo for my language).

It would be perhaps nicer to re-enable the ooo-build template (dpm: any thoughts?) and using that for X-Ubuntu-Translation-Domain, but at the end of the day, this bug is valid as hell.