Re: [bug-gettext] [sr #108887] Icon= in .desktop files

[Roumen Petrov]

Piotr Drąg wrote:
> [SNIP]
> We started adding a comment to every .desktop file in GNOME asking translators
> to copy the string instead of translating it,
Hmm, perhaps is better to have "no translation" for some items.

> and while it seems to have
> lowered the amount of incorrectly “translated” icons, it has not stopped
> them.

Copy or left empty should be fine. Main issue is why those items are 
listed in "translation" sources?


> Every release someone (developer, maintainer, or usually me) has to
> manually fix numerous translations to not point to non-existent files.
I wonder how someone could find "non-existent files" in not yet 
installed or even not prepared for build project.

There must be a simple way to clean (ignore) some items. Neither 
developer, maintainer, build engineer and etc. is responsible to do this.


Please take into account translation to be externalized to the project 
or package.

Let package is distributed without translation and let user decide to 
use localization in language X.

I don't know what is expected functionality for "desktop"-files.

There should be a generic way to inform translation module to exclude 
some items.


Regards,
Roumen Petrov