All the strings from evolution-indicator shows untranslated

The message is in the evolution-indicator template:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/evolution-indicator/+pots/evolution-indicator/es/5/+translate

It was translated since 2009-03-19, and the translation is inside the evolution-indicator.mo file installed in my system:

strings -eS /usr/share/locale-langpack/es/LC_MESSAGES/evolution-indicator.mo | grep Nuevo
%d Nuevo mensaje
%d Nuevos mensajes

So where's the problem? Is it in evolution-indicator, or maybe in indicator-applet?

Thank you for reporting this issue, it helps make Ubuntu better. Confirmed.

That message is not the only one from evolution-indicator which is displayed untranslated. As you can see in the screenshot, there're more untranslated messages which belongs to evolution-indicator:

- "When New Mail Arri_ves In"
- "Any Folder"
- "Pla_y a sound"
- "_Display a notification"
- "_Indicate new messages in the panel"

All these messages are translated in Launchpad:

  https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/evolution-indicator/+pots/evolution-indicator/es/+translate?batch=13

and the translations are included into the evolution-indicator.mo file.

I don't think this is a "Low" priority bug because it's visible to everyone using Evolution for e-mail. I'm sure this would easily get notified as an ugly spot when eg. non-English medias would be doing reviews.

As the translations are included but not used, it could be that translation domain (evolution-indicator) is not set or is not set correctly. Or alternatively, as I don't know how the indications are passed, if the translation should be fetched by the indicator applet itself somehow.

(added this to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TranslatingUbuntu/JauntyTranslationIssues)

let's not discuss settings, it's not a crasher, not destroying datas, not a security issue you can start arguing for days about the settings that will not make the bug fixed any faster there, let's rather try to get a patch so that can be fixed before jaunty

Attached is a patch that fixes it, it was indeed a simple issue.

(I know this is not the forum, but since you also couldn't resist continuing a bit, I can't either to continue with the controversial claim that visible I18N issues should be more important than crashers, but I will elaborate on it elsewhere:))

@Timo:

Does your patch fixes all the messages as I commented above? (comment: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-applet/+bug/352657/comments/4 )

@Ricardo:

Right, my patch only fixed the original notification issue. I managed to dwell into it a bit more and fixed those messages as well. Attached is another patch, which would fix both problems (I'm not certain about using "/usr/share/locale", but it seems to work even though the actual .mo files are under locale-langpack dirs).

In this version I also changed the first part to use the PACKAGE variable available.

Thanks for the patch, Timo!

Great, thanks a lot, Timo :)

the change looks good to me, is the codeset call required though? other pygtk applications don't seem to do that

Sebastien: (not pygtk but C) Most probably it's by default UTF-8. I checked how the gettext setup is done from update-notifier, where it's done like this (except that there is a Makefile -DPACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR which evolution-indicator doesn't have). I now quickly checked that it also works without that line just fine.

This bug was fixed in the package evolution-indicator - 0.1.12-0ubuntu1

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evolution-indicator (0.1.12-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
    * Patch from Neil Patel to fix LP: #342429 that looks to X to figure
      out if an Evolution window is open before sending notifications.
    * Patch from Timo Jyrinki which fixes LP: #352657 where the plugin
      was using the wrong gettext domain.

 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:09:23 -0500

Ted, your fix has a very bad side-effect: now, ALL strings are untranslated EXCEPT the ones from evolution-indicator!

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Evolution
2. Click on Edit->Preferences, and then on Mail Preferences

You can see some untranslated strings: "Automatic Contacts", "Calendar and Tasks"...

3. Click on Close
4. Click again on Edit->Preferences, and then on Mail Preferences

Now, ALL the strings shows untranslated EXCEPT the ones from evolution-indicator!

Okay, so I think I fixed the fix :)

Could people try the release in my PPA and confirm that it works as expected before we publish this to everyone again :)

   https://edge.launchpad.net/~ted-gould/+archive/ppa

Version is:

    evolution-indicator - 0.1.12-0ubuntu2~ppa1

Thank you!

Ted, thanks for taking care of this bug.

I've just tested your 0.1.12-0ubuntu2~ppa1 version, and the localization problem was gone. Congrats!

However:

I just realized that the "%d New messages" OSD notification no longer appears when new messages arrives! I can confirm that:

  - Using evolution-indicator_0.1.11-0ubuntu1, the notification appears.
  - Using evolution-indicator_0.1.12-0ubuntu1, the notification does NOT appear, and I suffer the translations issue.
  - Using evolution-indicator_0.1.12-0ubuntu2~ppa1, the notification does NOT appear, and I don't suffer the translations issue.

I tried running Evolution using:

  $ LANG=C evolution

with the same results.

If you think I can help you in any way, please tell me. Thanks in advance.

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:34 +0000, Ricardo Pérez López wrote:
> I just realized that the "%d New messages" OSD notification no longer
> appears when new messages arrives! I can confirm that:
>
> - Using evolution-indicator_0.1.11-0ubuntu1, the notification appears.
> - Using evolution-indicator_0.1.12-0ubuntu1, the notification does NOT appear, and I suffer the translations issue.
> - Using evolution-indicator_0.1.12-0ubuntu2~ppa1, the notification does NOT appear, and I don't suffer the translations issue.

Hmm, I definitely still getting the notification. One of the things
that improved in 0.1.12 is that it detects the window with focus more
more strictly. And no notification will be displayed if it things that
Evolution is open. Can you make sure to have another window focused and
see if that changes the behavior?

Yes, Ted, you are right: the notification appears when I focus in another window other than Evolution. I was testing the notification issue with the Evolution opened and focused, so it doesn't appear. If this is the desired behavior, then it works perfectly for me.

Thanks a lot for the fix, Ted! Can you include the fix in Jaunty, please?

BTW, a rather offtopic question: is there a way to "hide" the Evolution window inside the indicator-applet, as is been done with Pidgin?

Not yet. We'll consider how to present that in Karmic.

This bug was fixed in the package evolution-indicator - 0.1.13-0ubuntu1

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evolution-indicator (0.1.13-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
    * Updating patch to fix internationalization issues so that Evolution
      translations work along with the indicator's. LP: #352657

 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:06:47 -0500

This bug haven't fixed yet in Lucid.
I've allready checked the translate string in Launchpad and
strings -eS /usr/share/locale-langpack/vi/LC_MESSAGES/evolution-indicator.mo

The bug effect when i setup a new account with "Set Up Mail...". Then there is no translation for
Compose New Email or Contacts if I haven't started the Evolution yet. Even when I click to the Compose New Email,
But when I clicked to Contacts or "Thư điện tử" then the Evolution will start, and these String will change to Vietnamese.
This bug is not from translation, it's from the application itself.
There are screenshots:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aLbiI7q0F1c/S8Lsy2epp0I/AAAAAAAADZI/4cVrA0ZZ7IE/Man_h%C3%ACnh.png

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_aLbiI7q0F1c/S8LtZ8OgX2I/AAAAAAAADZU/wCbdPhLxtx4/Man_h%C3%ACnh-2.png

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_aLbiI7q0F1c/S8Lszt9A9LI/AAAAAAAADZQ/KVmkwHQke7A/s640/Man_h%C3%ACnh-2.png

What you're describing is a different bug. It's been fixed and is being
uploaded. It should be in the archives shortly.

  affects ubuntu/evolution-indicator
  status fixreleased