Translations of combobox items in GNOME are not being used
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GNOME Terminal |
Fix Released
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Medium
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| gnome-terminal (Fedora) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
For some comboboxes in gtk apps, the combobox items show untranslated, even thought their msgids are translated in the corresponding po files. I have seen this issue in nautilus preferences and in gnome-terminal preferences dialogs. I have checked that the msgs are translated by looking at the appropriate po files in the source package of language-
This problem seems to affect Jaunty only, as in Intrepid the combox items appear translated.
An example:
$ grep -B 6 -A 6 "Escape sequence" language-
#: ../src/
msgid ""
"Automatic\n"
"Control-H\n"
"ASCII DEL\n"
"Escape sequence"
msgstr ""
"Αυτόματη\n"
"Control-H\n"
"ASCII DEL\n"
"Ακολουθία διαφυγής"
From the previous you can see that "Escape sequence" is translated in Greek as "Ακολουθία διαφυγής". But in the attached screen you can see that the translation is not being used.
| Thanos Lefteris (alefteris) wrote | #2 |
| Thanos Lefteris (alefteris) wrote | #3 |
| affects: | ubuntu → gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in gnome-terminal: | |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in gnome-terminal (Fedora): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) |
| Viliam Dias (viliam.dias) wrote | #5 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
| Changed in gnome-terminal: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
I tried to change the po, to see from where the strings presented in the ui are picked up from. For a combobox in the gnome-terminal preferences here are the two places that contain the string "Disabled":
1st:
Source Code (in glade file):
<widget class="GtkComboBox" id="scrollbar-
<property name="visible"
<property name="items" translatable=
On the right side
Disabled</property>
<property name="add_
<property name="focus_
</widget>
Po:
#: ../src/
msgid ""
"On the left side\n"
"On the right side\n"
"Disabled"
msgstr ""
"στην αριστερή πλευρά\n"
"στη δεξιά πλευρά\n"
"απενεργοποιημέ
2nd:
Source Code:
./src/terminal-
Po:
#: ../src/
msgid "Disabled"
msgstr "Απενεργοποιημέ
Now, when I compile the po and use it with the app, what happens is that in the combobox, only "Disabled" gets translated as "Απενεργοποιημέ