Desktop Entry Specification

[Waldo Bastian]

On Wednesday 18 May 2005 03:58, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote:
> Hi xdg members,
>
> I'm working GNOME localization @ Sun.
> I have a question regarding to .desktop file. Could you advice me?
>
> Currently I'm working to separate multilingual files; .desktop, .icon,
> .key, .schemas, .xml and etc, by locale. For .desktop files, I try to hack
> intltool-merge and the following is the implementation:
>

Would it help if translations for .desktop files could be in separate files?

E.g. instead of having a .desktop file like:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=foo
Name=English Foo
Name[de]=German foo

You could have a file foo.desktop like:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=foo
Name=English Foo

And then a file foo.desktop.de that only provides translations like:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=German foo

That will need changes in both Gnome and KDE of course for it to work.

Cheers,
Waldo
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