Ubuntu
gnome-session package

Missing translations for "xterm failsafe session"

Bug #542068 reported by Ricardo Pérez López on 2010-03-19

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Ubuntu Translations	Triaged	Low	Unassigned
gdm (Ubuntu)	New	Low	Unassigned
gnome-session (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-session

The "xterm failsafe session" located in /usr/share/xsessions/xterm.desktop has the X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gdm entry in order to use the translations from /usr/share/locale-langpack/xx/LC_MESSAGES/gdm.mo. However, the "Name=xterm" and "Comment=Failsafe session with only xterm" can't be translated because there aren't in the Launchpad template.

The following query returns nothing:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/gnome-session/+pots/gnome-session-2.0/es/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=xterm

We need to include i18n facility for, at least, the Comment= key, so we can translate the "Failsafe session with only xterm" string.

I attach an screenshot of the GDM Setup application, which you can see all the session names translated except the "failsafe xterm" one.

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Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo) wrote on 2010-03-19:

Screenshot of the problem: "failsafe xterm" session name shows untranslated Edit (39.7 KiB, image/png)

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Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng) wrote on 2010-03-20:

This is coming from this file:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/lucid/gdm/lucid/annotate/head%3A/debian/xterm.desktop
Indeed, it needs to be marked for translation.

Changed in ubuntu-translations:
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

David Planella (dpm) on 2010-03-20

Changed in ubuntu-translations:
importance:	Undecided → Low

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David Planella (dpm) wrote on 2010-03-20:

I should probably open a new bug for this, but I'll mention it here for the record: the onboard.desktop file should also be marked for translation.

In any case, I think the part that will take more work is to rename the files to .desktop.in and make sure a) translations are extracted and b) the .desktop files are build. This will probably need to be done somewhere in debian'/rules. Marking strings for translation in both files is the easy part and can be done for both in one go.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2010-04-22