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

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for clarification. In this case your suggestion of merging the content 
of the qt_xx.ts files into the qgis_xx.ts ones seems to be a good solution. 
Also, there are languages supported by qgis that have no corresponding 
qt_xx.ts file. Those would also suffer from the problem with the menu 
placement.

> 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?

The only thing that comes to my mind is to do some scripting. Maybe someone 
has a better idea?
Also if someone creates the qgis_xx.ts file for a new language, it would be 
good to have a script that creates it (and automatically merges modified qt 
strings into it).

Regards,
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



-- 
Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch