Mass .desktop file edition, translation

On Saturday 14 July 2007 14:57:04 HoppÃ¡r ZoltÃ¡n wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm one of the i18n group of an linux, and I (we) need
some help. We are
> trying to collect / translate / repair all of the
.desktop files in the
> system (this is over 3500 file), but haven't found any
GUI tool, or for
> this specialized script-tool(s). This includes also KDE
.desktop files, so
> therefore writing to here (also). Maybe has somebody
somekind of tool(s) to
> easily edit these files. But I think - we accept any
type of help - what
> brings us closer to makes easier this work. So,
question is: Is there ANY
> kind of tool what makes easier this work, for KDE, or
for the full system?

hello Zoltan,
maybe kfilereplace is something which can help you -
KFileReplace is an 
embedded component for KDE that acts as a batch
search-and-replace tool, it 
is part of the kdewebdev package - see http://kfilereplace
.kdewebdev.org .

werner

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On Saturday 14 July 2007, Hoppár Zoltán wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm one of the i18n group of an linux, and I (we) need
some help. We are
> trying to collect / translate / repair all of the
.desktop files in the
> system (this is over 3500 file), but haven't found any
GUI tool, or for
> this specialized script-tool(s). This includes also KDE
.desktop files, so
> therefore writing to here (also). Maybe has somebody
somekind of tool(s) to
> easily edit these files. But I think - we accept any
type of help - what
> brings us closer to makes easier this work. So,
question is: Is there ANY
> kind of tool what makes easier this work, for KDE, or
for the full system?

I recommend you ask on the localization mailinglist
ht
tps://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-i18n-doc

As far as I know KDE uses a semi-automated approach, where a
script extracts 
translatable fields from the .desktop files and provides the
translators with 
a .po file just like for other translatable strings. Then
there is a second 
script which takes the .po files of the different languages
and merges the 
translations back into the .desktop files.

In KDE SVN (e.g. through websvn.kde.org) this can be seen as
commity by an 
account named "scripty"

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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Mass .desktop file edition, translation

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