Language Packs revisited

Danilo Šegan danilo at kvota.net
Tue Aug 16 14:08:37 CDT 2005


Hi Martin,

Since Ubuntu is the only distribution I know that uses language packs,
I'd like you to add your suggestions and comments on what we're
planning to do with intltool (I remember you being in charge for this
in Ubuntu, but if I'm wrong, you'll point me at the right person :). 

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309566
My proposal is at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309566#c14

The idea is to have language packs regenerate .desktop, .xml, .schemas
and other files in post-install (and post-uninstall) step, requiring
only .in and .mo files to be installed on the system (.mo files are
usually installed anyway except in rare cases such as gweather
Locations.xml, but I don't think it's a problem to have 120k-250k file
per language instead of 18mb Locations.xml one would get now).

This approach should also have positive effects on performance (if
anyone remembers desktop-devel-list at gnome.org discussion on GConf
performance, one of big problems was that all the translations have
been read in for all the schemas and keys).

However, this would require small changes to all the packages, but
you're already doing that in Ubuntu, right?


There are some problems discussed in the bug itself, but 

Cheers,
Danilo



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