Comment 10 for bug 654140

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David Planella (dpm) wrote : Re: [Bug 654140] Re: Sound menu has two Rhythmbox elements when using translations

El dt 05 de 10 de 2010 a les 09:51 +0000, en/na Conor Curran va
escriure:
> Hmmm, I didn't think application names were translated... It's always
> our presumptions that let us down.
>

They are :) It is perhaps not as common for application names such as
Rhythmbox, but it is quite common for generic application names (e.g.
"Update Manager"). In addition to that, some languages with writing
systems different than Latin need to either adapt the name to the
particular writing system, or transcribe it.

I guess this hadn't come up in the Rhythmbox indicator because not many
languages translate "Rhythmbox".

> In order for me to get a fix in for this for the SRU, could someone
> please attach to this bug a /usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop
> file which has the translated application name.
>

In Ubuntu generally .desktop files are empty wrt. translations. The
translations are only present in the .mo files from language packs,
where they are loaded from at runtime. More info on [1].

[1]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Internationalisation/Packaging#DesktopEntries