Re: [Adonthell-general] danish translation

[Kai Sterker]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
<address@hidden> wrote:

>> Hadn't heard of it before, but it does sound interesting. I guess it's
>> not related to the Free Translation Project, is it? I am a little
>> concerned about registering with two different translation groups, but
>> if it could lead to more translations it might be worth considering.
>> Thanks for the info!
>>
> I don't know what the Free Translation Project is.

They (http://translationproject.org/) are a group centered around GNU
Gettext that volunteers to translate Free Software. Similar to the
Fedora Translation Team, which is why I wouldn't want to register
Adonthell with both of them.

In fact, I should have pointed anyone doing translation for Adonthell
to them first (as they can obviously make good use of new members
too). But it's been so long that I checked their website that I
completely forgot about that. That's why French is listed as an
"external translation" on their site for now:

    http://translationproject.org/domain/wastesedge.html

You're still free to join, if you like, of course.

 In a way, they do the same as the Transifex package: they provide
translators with up-to-date .pot files and notify package owners when
a translation is finished. Maybe not as fancy or convenient as
Transifex' direct repository access, but it does it's job just fine
:-).



>>  What's missing yet, however, is a rule to install it, as
>> I have no idea where it should go. Is there a standard location or
>> does it differ by distribution? Is it the same for KDE and Gnome (not
>> to speak about all the rest)?
>>
> That one is easy.

If only it was :-). It looks like Freedesktop.org provides two scripts
to install .desktop files and icons: xdg-dektop-menu and
xdg-icon-resource respectively. They were even present on my Ubuntu
7.10 and I assume you'd find them on any recent distro. Using those
scripts frees you entirely of figuring out the proper path for a given
Distro/Desktop combination. So far so good.

The problem is, they do not integrate nicely with GNU autotools. For
example, they don't honor the DESTDIR variable, making life difficult
for package maintainers like you. There's already a bug report for
that, so it might not be an issue in the future:

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14290

So for now I am a little undecided whether to use those scripts or
just put stuff into /usr/share/applications respectively
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/<size>/apps/. Both seem to have their pros
and cons.

Kai