[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Etoys translations

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 28.05.2012, at 21:48, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On 28.05.2012, at 20:29, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 
>> As mentioned previously look at the other Activities, like TurtleArt,
>> it works like the rest of the distro translation stuff, I'm not sure
>> if there's other sugar bits that assist with that.
> 
> Other activities have only a single mo file. Other activities use the gettext library so they do not have to worry about where the files are.
> 
> Etoys has multiple mo files. Etoys does not use gettext, so it needs to know where to find the translation files.

I would add that other activities only have translated LC_MESSAGES. Etoys also has translated QuickGuides, see its current locale directory.

> It's precisely about those differences I'm asking you for clarification. See my previous message.
> 
> Until now, Etoys just did its own thing, and that worked fine. But there must be a good reason why you want the mo files in the system default directory. (What is that reason, btw?) So I'm trying to find a way to make it happen. If I know what the constraints are, we surely can find a way to make it fit.
> 
> - Bert -


So, what are the constraints?

- Bert -