[Qgis-developer] installation of the qt_xx.qm files

[Tom Elwertowski]

Hi Marco,

I added the qt_xx.ts files from Trolltech in r6461 and Magnus added one 
more in r6465. The only class I modified is QMenuBar because it contains 
Mac-only strings which are sometimes untranslated.

Those files are all from Qt4.2. Qt4.3 contains three more languages that 
we use and there may be new strings for all languages as well. Later 
this evening, I will merge my QMenuBar strings into the latest qt_xx.ts 
files and submit them to svn.

I also thought a little about a better place for the strings. I tried 
putting the qt_xx.ts files in a different directory but the 
update_ts_files.sh still finds them. My current idea is to add some code 
to update_ts_files.sh to search for and delete the references in the 
TRANSLATIONS section of the project file after it is generated by 
update_ts_files.sh.

After solving the update problem, we should encourage our translators to 
translate additional qt_xx.ts files and submit them to Trolltech too.

Tom


Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Do you remember which strings you changed or at which revision you committed 
> the qt_xx.ts files (was it r6461)? I think we should add your qt_xx.ts files 
> to svn prior to release tagging for 0.9.1 and I'd like to look at possible 
> solutions in the next time.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marco   
> 
> On Thursday 29 November 2007 11:21:58 Tom Elwertowski wrote:
>> Marco Hugentobler wrote:
>>> A question to the cmake Gurus:
>>>
>>> How can we install all the qt translation files (*.qm) from
>>> QTDIR/translations to the qgis i18 dir? They contain translations of the
>>> qt classes (e.g. QFileDialog)
>>>
>>> I think it is a better way than having the qt_xx.ts files in qgis svn. It
>>> was a problem that people updated the .ts files with the
>>> update_ts_files.sh script and like this, also the qgis strings have been
>>> written into qt_xx.ts files.
>> The qt_xx.ts files are in qgis svn because I needed to fix some Mac
>> bugs. Qt does string comparisons between QMenuBar strings and equivalent
>> strings in qgis_xx.ts. If the translated strings do not match, menus
>> such as About, Preferences and Quit do not appear in the correct
>> location on a Mac.
>>
>> In some cases, the QMenuBar class is not translated in the Qt-provided
>> files. In other cases, the strings are translated differently. Since
>> QGIS translators use the same translation as Apple recommends, I have
>> modified some qt_xx.ts files to match what Apple and our translators use
>> rather than asking that our translators use odd translations just to
>> make Mac-only code inside QMenuBar work.
>>
>> As an alternative, does it make sense to merge the Qt classes into
>> qgis_xx.ts? Is there some way to remerge the qt_xx.ts files for each Qt
>> release such that we pick up new strings without losing our modifications?
>>
>> Tom