Re: Translating menu entries
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:44:11AM -0800, Martin Quinson wrote:
> Hi, sorry for the delay.
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:50:45PM +0100, Morten Brix Pedersen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > * Martin Quinson <mquinson@ens-lyon.fr> [2004-02-12 23:41:47]:
> >
> > > Is it possible to get the menu translated in several languages, depending on
> > > the user setup, using that schema?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > The problem is not menu itself, but the window managers. For example,
> > when 'update-menus' is run, the blackbox menu-method creates
> > /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu. How should one store multiple locales
> > in this file? The native blackbox-menu syntax doesn't support it.
> >
> > You *will* be able to do it if you run update-menus as a user and have
> > repeat_lang="fr" in ~/.menu/menu.h. But it will only work for those
> > menu-methods which support userprefix properly. For example, when
> > 'update-menus' is run by a user, the file ~/.blackbox/blackbox-menu is
> > created, but blackbox doesn't look at that file per default.
> >
> > So the problem is more with the window managers, as I see it.
>
> Sorry about that, but my opinion is that if we wait for all window managers
> to become i18n'ed before i18n'ing menu, then, we'd better say now that we
> don't want to have l10n'ed menus within debian.
Hello Martin,
I think there is three unrelated issues here:
1) make translations the default.
2) allow users to rebuild the menus in theirs chosen languages.
3) allow sysadmin to build the menus in several languages at once.
Point 2) is available for window-managers that support user-prefix
properly. That is not delaying anything.
I am not sure how to implement point 3). If you are able to come up with
a design that work with fvwm2, that would really help us.
As for point 1), I think we fixed the last problem. At this point we
can make outputencoding="ASCII" the default and activate the
translations by default.
> I'm rather sure that even when blackbox will change to support what we need,
> it'll be another old/tiny/crappy WM out there preventing us to enable the
> translations of menu.
>
> I guess it would be better if the menu-methods of i18n-ready WM issue a
> specific command to menu to tell so. Then, menu would use a new additionnal
> set of commands to give the translations.
This is what is done. The problem is _very_ few window managers do that,
and most of them because I have NMUed them at some point.
I suppose I will do a mass bug filling of all the window managers
instead of sending patches for the menu-methods since that proved to
be too time consuming.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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