Translating Gnome Top Level Menus

[Xavier Conde Rueda]

Hi Essien,

i think you can see which .mo files are being accessed for an
application. Just run gnome-system-monitor, select a process and look
at its memory map or shared dlls. The .mo objects used should be
displayed as shared objects.

I think this question arised some weeks ago on this list too.

Hope this help.

2006/4/7, Essien Ita Essien <essien at wazobialinux.com>:
> Hiya all,
>
> I'm on a team that's currently translating Fedora into some three major
> Nigerian Languages.
> Currently, we're translating Gnome and my approach is to start from
> highly visible packages and span outwards.
>
> I have identified these areas so far:
>
> gnome-panel-2.0 [contains strings for the panel 'Application', 'Places',
> 'Desktop', 'Run Applications', 'Lock Screen', etc]
> gnome-session [contains strings for the splash screen, etc]
> nautilus [contains strings for the Desktop icons 'Computer' 'Trash', etc]
>
> So far... i have not been able to identify the po file that contains the
> strings for the top level MenuItems like 'Graphics', 'Internet',
> 'Programming', 'Accessories', etc.
>
> I decided to play Sherlock Holmes on the matter, and I logged in with
> the Danish locale. Made sure the menus where all in Danish. Then I
> proceded to delete _all_ .mo files in /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES
> and I logged out, restarted my system and logged in again... but..
> voila!!! The Top level menus are still in Danish when i log in with the
> Danish locale! infact, i'm looking at them... right now 'Grafik',
> 'Kontor', 'Progremmering', etc.
>
> My question is... which file contains these strings?
>
> I had thought it was gnome-desktop, gnome-menus or redhat-menus, but
> after deleting _ALL_ the files in /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES, i
> don't think so anymore (tho looking at these po files, i see the same
> strings repeated thru out the three files)
>
> Any ideas first.. which program is responsible for generating those
> strings... and then which po files contain them.
>
> Thanks and Cheers,
> Essien
>
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