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glib2.0 package

Gettext support for GDesktopAppinfo

Bug #371399 reported by Milan Bouchet-Valat
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Sebastien Bacher
Karmic
Fix Released
Medium
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

As you know, Ubuntu and OpenSuSE use a custom translation system for .desktop files. Bug 3935 deals with the GKeyFile issue.

Now that GIO is the preferred way to handle .desktop files, via GDesktopAppInfo, we need to make it support that system. The future GNOME Shell is notably using that way, and we don't get any translation for application names and descriptions in Ubuntu. So that should be fixed before next year... ;-)

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/glib2.0
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Subscribing Martin who has been working on those changes

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Thanks for pointing this out!

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → Martin Pitt (pitti)
importance: Wishlist → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

Actually it seems to work in the new GNOME Shell, which is now using GMenu to get the .desktop files.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

it's very visible in the new message indicator in karmic too now

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu Karmic):
assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti) → Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package glib2.0 - 2.21.6-0ubuntu6

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glib2.0 (2.21.6-0ubuntu6) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/01_gettext-desktopfiles.patch:
    - updated to fix the setlocale() argument, fix the translations
      not working correctly (lp: #371399)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:38:21 +0200

Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I did undo the change it was not correct the lib should not be changing values but the caller should call setlocale()

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