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Translating labwc-tweaks-gtk

Translators

Weblate

labwc-tweaks-gtk is now on Weblate.

You can register here and use the instructions to add a new translation or edit an existing one.

Pull request

If you don't want to use Weblate you can still branch off the repository and create a pull request. We use GNU Gettext for translations.

Code contributors

  1. Make sure you wrap any new strings that you add, exposed in the GTK user interface, with the gettext macro:
gtk_label_new(_("My New Feature"));

  1. If you create a new file that has exposed strings append the filename to po/POTFILES.in. Also you must add it to the xgettext command string in point 4.

  2. After adding and testing your code additions to satisfaction, backup po/labwc-tweaks-gtk.pot. You need the custom header from that file for the newly generated .pot file in the next step.

  3. From the root of the repository run this:

xgettext --keyword=_  --add-comments -o po/labwc-tweaks-gtk.pot main.c \
stack-appearance.c stack-lang.c stack-mouse.c data/labwc-tweaks-gtk.desktop.in \
--package-name=labwc-tweaks-gtk --package-version=0.1.0 \
--msgid-bugs-address=https://github.com/labwc/labwc-tweaks-gtk/issues

If you add a new file add it to the command string like so:

xgettext --keyword=_  --add-comments -o po/labwc-tweaks-gtk.pot main.c \
stack-appearance.c stack-lang.c stack-mouse.c stack-newfile.c data/labwc-tweaks-gtk.desktop.in \
--package-name=labwc-tweaks-gtk --package-version=0.1.0 \
--msgid-bugs-address=https://github.com/labwc/labwc-tweaks-gtk/issues

where stack-newfile.c is your newly created file.

This generates a new pot file at po/labwc.pot

  1. Copy the header from the original labwc.pot to the new one, keeping the newly generated dates, check for sanity and commit. It's important to preserve the dates and the charset=UTF-8 variable declaration. Please consider that many translators are not coders so may overlook small details when copying the .pot file to their locale. po file.