i18n support for tools

Andrey Borzenkov arvidjaar at mail.ru
Sun Oct 29 19:17:39 PST 2006


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On Monday 30 October 2006 03:02, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
> Hi;
>
> Currently, KDE uses hal's methods for mount/umount operations, but if any
> error occurs it just shows the message written to stderr by hal in a dialog
> box.
>
> So for example in while KDE is Turkish, KDE shows unlocalized messages
> like "hal-storage-fixed-mount-all-options refused uid 1002" to users.
>
> Attached patch is initial i18n support for tools/hal-storage-{un}mount.c.
> As a starting point i just converted the user visible strings but if you
> want i can start to add i18n support to others strings/tools.
>

Daemon may run in different locale than user; so this should probably be done 
on the level which interacts with user. One possibility is to pass locale 
information over D-Bus; I do not know if this is possible.

Regards

- -andrey
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