LxMenu translations

[Stephen Smally]

@Michael this works, but is not the correct way since any update will 
clean the changes, and in the FOSS world is always good share your fixes.

On 03/14/2012 06:49 PM, Pierre Gobin wrote:
> Ok, I will waiting for their opinion about that. Otherwise, I'm ok to 
> modify .desktop files. But I don't know anything about the procedure 
> to follow on Launchpad.
>
> Regards,
> Pierre Gobin
>
> Le 14/03/2012 17:56, Michael Rawson a écrit :
>> I think you can simply add a new entry to the *.desktop files, 
>> containing square brackets with the langauge. Some exmple output from 
>> LSC's .desktop.
>>
>> "michael at michael-testing:~$ cat 
>> /usr/share/applications/lubuntu-software-center.desktop
>> [Desktop Entry]
>> Name=Lubuntu Software Center
>> Name[bg]=Лубунту Софтуерен Център
>> Name[de]=Lubuntu Software-Center
>> Name[en_AU]=Lubuntu Software Center
>> Name[en_CA]=Lubuntu Software Center
>> Name[en_GB]=Lubuntu Software Center
>> Name[et]=Lubuntu tarkvarakeskus
>> Name[fi]=Lubuntun sovellusvalikoima
>> Name[fr]=Logithèque Lubuntu
>> Name[it]=Lubuntu Software Center
>> Name[ms]=Pusat Perisian Lubuntu
>> Name[nl]=Lubuntu Software Centrum
>> Name[pl]=Centrum oprogramowania Lubuntu
>> Name[pt]=Central de Programas do Lubuntu
>> Name[pt_BR]=Central de Programas do Lubuntu
>> Name[ru]=Центр приложений Lubuntu
>> Name[sl]=Programsko središče Lubuntu
>> Name[sv]=Lubuntu Mjukvarucenter
>> Name[te]=లుబుంటు సాఫ్ట్‍వేర్ కేంద్రము
>> Name[zh_CN]=Lubuntu 软件中心
>> ...
>> "
>>
>> You could then supply a modified bzr branch and merge request to the 
>> project in Ubuntu.
>>
>> Bear in mind that I'm not totally sure about this, gilir, phillw or 
>> similiar will probably correct me.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:40:53 +0100
>> Pierre Gobin<pierre.gobin at sfr.fr>  wrote:
>>
>>> I was talking about the *.desktop files. I will try to contact the
>>> different program's mainteners.
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Pierre Gobin
>>>
>>> Le 14/03/2012 17:03, Stephen Smally a écrit :
>>>> I'm not sure if you are speaking about the programs names, the
>>>> categories names or the program translation.
>>>> In case of categories name you have to look in the package
>>>> lxmenu-data, in case of program names (or description) you have to
>>>> look in the program-project homepage, since the menu entry is provided
>>>> by a .desktop file shipped with the package of the program itself.
>>>> In case of wide-program translation (eg, the menu of firefox is not
>>>> translated) you have to look again in the program home page, and see
>>>> how they suggest to translate (usually this is made via the gnu
>>>> gettext tool and a list of .po files, which contains the information
>>>> for the translation (also you have to check if the program is really
>>>> translatable).
>>>>
>>>> Stephen Smally
>>>>
>>>>> ---- Aan Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:10:15 +0100 *Pierre
>>>>> Gobin<pierre.gobin at sfr.fr<mailto:pierre.gobin at sfr.fr>>* schreef ----
>>>>>
>>>>>      Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>      In my local language (French), some applications in the menu are
>>>>>      still
>>>>>      not translated in Lubuntu 12.04. I wanted to know where I could
>>>>>      propose
>>>>>      translations for them ?
>>>>>
>>>>>      Regards,
>>>>>      Pierre Gobin
>>>>>
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