Most of the Checkbox UI is not translatable

Hi David,

I think the checkbox-gtk UI hasn't changed so we shouldn't have any regressions regarding the work done there.

Could you confirm whether you're using the new qt-based UI instead? To test, the initial welcome screen has a "don't show me this message in the future" checkbox on the bottom right corner.

If so, we could treat this as a "master bug" for making sure the new Qt-based UI both honors existing translations and exposes its internal strings (such as "System Testing" for bug 951025 - it's a string alright, but we don't use gettext apparently for it) so they can be localized.

Thanks!

Al 09/03/12 20:28, En/na Daniel Manrique ha escrit:
> Hi David,
>
> I think the checkbox-gtk UI hasn't changed so we shouldn't have any
> regressions regarding the work done there.
>
> Could you confirm whether you're using the new qt-based UI instead? To
> test, the initial welcome screen has a "don't show me this message in
> the future" checkbox on the bottom right corner.
>

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'm using whatever Precise is shipping by default, and by looking at the
UI, I'd say it's Qt-based.

Looking at the code, I understand why it's happening: the
'qt/checkbox-qt.ui' is missing from the po/POTFILES.in file.

So if we're going to be shipping the Qt-based UI, we should:

- Remove the '[type: gettext/glade] gtk/checkbox-gtk.ui' line, so that
translators don't waste efforts translating a UI we're not shipping
- Add a line for the qt/checkbox-qt.ui file (*), so that intltool picks
it up, extracts its strings, puts them in the .pot file and they can be
updated in Launchpad.

> If so, we could treat this as a "master bug" for making sure the new Qt-
> based UI both honors existing translations and exposes its internal
> strings (such as "System Testing" for bug 951025 - it's a string
> alright, but we don't use gettext apparently for it) so they can be
> localized.
>

Yeah, it seems existing translations from .py files are indeed loaded,
but none of the Qt ones are.

Cheers,
David.

(*) Having played a bit with it, I'm not too sure how to best add
qt/checkbox-qt.ui to po/POTFILES.in, as intltool does not seem to
support Qt .ui files. I'm sure I've seen a workaround somewhere, perhaps
marking it as a generic XML file, but after a quick test with
'intltool-update -p -g checkbox', it didn't seem to extract the strings
from the file.

> Thanks!
>
>
> ** Changed in: checkbox
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: checkbox
> Milestone: None => 0.13.5
>

--
David Planella
Ubuntu Translations Coordinator
www.ubuntu.com / www.davidplanella.wordpress.com
www.identi.ca/dplanella / www.twitter.com/dplanella

The following command will extract all the strings and put them into a ts file:
lupdate-qt4 frontend.pro -ts strings.ts

Another solution would be to compile the ui file into a cpp file and then extract the strings:
uic-qt4 qtfront.ui > ui_qtfront.cpp

the ui_qtfront.cpp is actually auto generated while compiling the qt frontend.

Al 09/03/12 21:34, En/na Tiago Salem Herrmann ha escrit:
> The following command will extract all the strings and put them into a ts file:
> lupdate-qt4 frontend.pro -ts strings.ts
>

Thanks Tiago for your suggestion. However, Launchpad uses gettext and
cannot import .ts files.

> Another solution would be to compile the ui file into a cpp file and then extract the strings:
> uic-qt4 qtfront.ui> ui_qtfront.cpp
>

If we cannot use intltool directly, this might be the way to go. So I
guess we could put qt/ui_qtfront.cpp in POTFILES.in and make sure it is
generated before intltool is executed. Then intltool would work as usual
and put the messages from the .cpp file into the checkbox.pot file.

> the ui_qtfront.cpp is actually auto generated while compiling the qt
> frontend.
>

The Ubuntu One guys are also using a Qt frontend, and it might be worth
talking to them to see how they're handling translations and share the
knowledge and practices.

Cheers,
David.

--
David Planella
Ubuntu Translations Coordinator
www.ubuntu.com / www.davidplanella.wordpress.com
www.identi.ca/dplanella / www.twitter.com/dplanella

This bug was fixed in the package checkbox - 0.13.6

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checkbox (0.13.6) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #971889)

  * Automated translation file updates from Launchpad

  [Marc Tardif]
  * Fixed string_to_type conversion in network_bandwidth_test (LP: #954587)

  [Daniel Manrique]
  * Internationalization support in checkbox-qt; updated checkbox.pot file
    (LP: #951054)
 -- Daniel Manrique <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:22:05 -0400