Re: Translation of preferences contents

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 22:59 +0200, Michèle Garoche wrote:
> Le 14 oct. 2004, à 20:08, David Malcolm a écrit :
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:14 +0200, Michèle Garoche wrote:
> >> Would it be possible to add to potfiles.in whichever file gets the
> >> contents of preferences panel (document types)?
> >
> > The list of document types is autogenerated based on the xds files (in
> > particular, it uses the <metadata> element near the top of each one).
> > So if these are translated (with an xds.in), the panel should get
> > translated.
> There are xds.in files, though not for all xds files, they are listed 
> also in the potfiles.in, but the related strings don't show up in the 
> po files, hence no translation.
So arguably, every xds file should have a corresponding xds.in file.
Would this be excessive?  I didn't want to create a huge translation
burden.

> 
> There must be something different in the treatment of the list of 
> document types (first tab in the preferences window) and the list of 
> plugins (second tab in the preferences window).

The plugin names are in the source code, in the various src/plugin-*.c
files, which _are_ marked for translation.

> 
> Michèle
> <http://micmacfr.homeunix.org>