Bug 66492

Summary:	Make the UI handle translations
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	Bastien Nocera <bugzilla>
Component:	core	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart, piotrdrag
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Bastien Nocera 2013-07-02 09:30:50 UTC

Currently, when PulseAudio is running on a remote machine, or with different envvars, the name of inputs, outputs, devices, etc. will be translated by the daemon and passed on translated to the UIs.

It would be nicer if the translations were handled in the PA library, so that running:
LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 gnome-control-center sound
would show all the translatable strings in the requested language, rather than a mish-mash of strings translated in 2 different languages.

Original request: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682866

Comment 1 Tanu Kaskinen 2013-07-02 11:21:21 UTC

So the server should send untranslated strings with %s etc. placeholders and the associated parameters (and the parameters themselves may be translatable strings with further parameters), and the client should then match the string and its parameters with some translation database. That doesn't sound doable to me.

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2013-07-02 12:04:25 UTC

Whatever translations you're doing in the daemon could just as well be done in the PA library. It's probably not that easy to do, as the "translate in place" is so ingrained into PA.

Think of an embedded PA, why should you restart the appliance on which it's running to get a new language in the client?

Comment 3 Tanu Kaskinen 2013-07-02 12:15:43 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Whatever translations you're doing in the daemon could just as well be done
> in the PA library.

Easier said than done.

> It's probably not that easy to do, as the "translate in
> place" is so ingrained into PA.

Yep.

> Think of an embedded PA, why should you restart the appliance on which it's
> running to get a new language in the client?

No other reason than that it's hard to implement. I'm not going to start working on this, so patches welcome, if you manage to come up with a sane solution.

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