Missing l10n packages for KDE4

[informatique@…]

Hello,

Sorry if I file this bugreport in the wrong place, I didn't know which package to target as it's about KDE4 as a whole.

As far as I know, there are no translation packages (l10n files) for KDE4 in Macports, so the apps have to be in English. I asked about that in the user mailing list but got no answer.

The only thing I found with Google was an answer from Ryan Schmidt in March 2010, inviting some user to report this as a bug. So that's what I'm doing. ;-)

Is it a problem of manpower, or a more technical reason?

Thanks for your attention.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to informatique@…:

Is it a problem of manpower, or a more technical reason?

I'm Cc'ing our KDE people to find out if there is a technical reason.

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

No technical reason.

Back when I picked up the KDE ports it was just the ones that had tickets open for them. There are a handful of KDE ports that remain unmaintained that could be, but it seems there's not been much interest in general. I can start looking into the 10n files: is all or nothing sufficient for your needs? The other options being we include a language setting in MacPorts (or perhaps there's one already in a file elsewhere on the system), or making a variant for each language. Thoughts?

[informatique@…]

If I understand your question correctly, I'd say the simpliest way would be to provide one l10n package per language, just as it was for the KDE 3 packages in Macports.

Including a language setting in Macports seems overkill to me. Why make a setting that would impact the whole project with unforseen side-effects for non-KDE packages?

Making a variant for each language : which package would have all those variants? kdelibs4?

So I would just go with traditional language packages that users can install / uninstall at will without playing with variant flags or recompiling any central package. As far as I know, that's how most Linux distributions do it and that's how the KDE project intends the l10n files to get installed.

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Initial commit: r74094.

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Next set: r74099.

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Next set: r74100.

[informatique@…]

Thanks for your work, I'm installing the packages right now. I'm just surprised by the dependencies: mysql-server, openldap, kdebase4, akonadi... simply to compile some translation files? I'm not familiar with the KDE translation system as it is in KDE4, but I thought I'd mention it. Regards.

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Replying to informatique@…:

I'm just surprised by the dependencies: mysql-server, openldap, kdebase4, akonadi... simply to compile some translation files? I'm not familiar with the KDE translation system as it is in KDE4, but I thought I'd mention it.

The port explicitly needs kdebase4, which requires all the other ports.

I've taken a break from the language files to address KDE 4.5 issues; and then 10.6.5 has decided to ruin my ethernet drivers as well. One day I'll get them finished :-)

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

I've checked in the remainder of the language files, at 4.7.0.