[Rosegarden-devel] translation and PO files

[Richard B. <bo...@bo...>]

> And I'm going to have a fiddle about [..]

Ok, it was pretty simple in the end.  For the record you have to make 
sure that you've got your KDEDIR set and then initially we run:

$ make -f admin/Makefile.common package-messages

And we get the po/rosegarden.pot and po/rosegardensequencer.pot files 
generated.

Translation can now take place on these files and according to that web 
reference the new files should be named in the form "<languagecode>.po" 
- I'm not so sure about this but I s'pose the best thing to do is to 
compare with another app to find out how they do it.

So assuming we have translation files (of some naming convention) in the 
po/ directory alongside our generated pot files we will subsequently be 
running:

$ make -f admin/Makefile.common package-merge

and translators will only have to translate additions or modifications.

I've not idea how the locales source the files from there but I'm sure 
there's several people out there with experience of this and can get 
this bit working.

I've checked the generated .pot files into CVS so that Alexandre or 
anyone else who wants to play around can do so - there was a German 
translation on the cards wasn't there?  If anyone gets a translation 
working and wants a pot file checked into CVS then let us know.

B