Hi all,
those of you who have been here for a long time might recall that when I
joined the community I assumed that my tasks would be only two: backport
patches to the stable TDE series and work on translation. Over time, it
turned out that my tasks on the project would be bigger. However, work
on translations is still a postponed task.
Recently, I have devoted some time to the tasks that are essential to move
us forward with the work on translations. Therefore, I would like to
inform you about the results and related plans.
I apologize for long email.
1. Unnecessary updates of POT files during package build
I observed that during the DEB packages build, an attempt was made to
update POT files. However, this step makes no sense. Bundling usually
takes place in dedicated pure chroot. Therefore, the result of updating
POT files would be discarded anyway. So this is unnecessary work.
At the same time, the extractrc tool is used during the POT files update.
But this tool is part of the tdesdk-scripts-trinity package. Therefore,
when building other packages, it is usually not present. So updating POT
files during building could not work well.
That's why I already removed these unnecessary updates of POT files while
building DEB packages.
2. Do we still need to use the old modified version of xgettext?
I found out what the current status is and whether there are still reasons
to use the old modified version of xgettext (kde-xgettext). Patches for
the old version solve two things:
a) adding a way to enter plural forms of strings
b) adding a way to enter translation context
The current versions of gexttext already have both of these options, but
they seem to be implemented in a different way. Before we can start using
standard xgettext in TDE, we will need to add support for a new way of
plural forms of strings and translation contexts.
So far, we need to continue using an old modified version of kde-xgettext.
3. Can modern gettext replace the extractrc tool?
Modern versions of gettext can handle XML files. We use XML files
for 'kcfg', 'rc' and 'ui'. Using ITS support in gettext, there is a way
to define which texts are to be extracted for translations. I tested this
option, but I encountered some problems:
a) Tags are written in strings as html entities: < / > / &.
After extraction using xgettext, are left in this form. But the extractrc
tool convert them to the appropriate characters '<', '>', '&'. I did not
find a way to do this with xgettext and ITS.
b) XPath is used to determine which strings are to be extracted from XML
files. Files 'kcfg' use their own XML namespace and I did not find a way
how to enter XPath to work properly with ITS in xgettext.
That's why I decided it was better to continue using the extractrc tool.
4. How do we create and update POT files?
In order to provide strings for translation, we first need to create and
update POT files. The best place for these files is right in the source
code – in GIT. Therefore, these files need to be maintained independently
of the building binaries. Therefore, it is obvious that for this task it
is not a good time during the build binary packages, nor the usual use of
Automake or CMake.
Although the usual use of CMake with CMakeLists.txt for updating POT files
is not a good choice, using CMake as such seems to be a good idea. CMake
allows using the -P option to process a different file than the usual
CMakeLists.txt. In this case, it does not create build folder, it does
not create a cache - exactly as it suits us for our purpose.
I decided to use the name CMakeL10n.txt. I have prepared the CMake module
TDEL10n.cmake. This module provides functions for simplifing directories
handling – function tde_add_l10n_subdirectory as the equivalent for
add_subdirectory and function tde_auto_add_l10n_subdirectories as an
equivalent for tde_auto_add_subdirectories. And above all, the
tde_create_l10n_template macro that provides POT files generation.
This macro provides some benefits that seemed useful:
a) If resource files are processed – for example, *.ui, the work
file "rc.cpp" is commonly used to save extracted strings for translation.
This file is then processed by kde-xgettext. Links to the original
location of strings in the resulting POT file then refer to
this "rc.cpp", which is not very useful.
The tde_create_l10n_template macro performs additional processing by
replacing references to "rc.cpp" with references to the original resource
files. Therefore, the POT file does not refer to a non-existent "rc.cpp"
file, but to real locations in resource files.
b) When a new POT file is generated, a comparison is made with the
original POT file. If only the date of POT file generation is changed,
the original POT file will be left unchanged.
This prevents unnecessary POT file updates. This will allow to run a
regular update of POT files without causing unnecessary commits.
5. What's next?
For revisions and comments, I created a pull request containing a CMake
module TDEL10n.cmake:
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde-common-cmake/pulls/2
...and pull requests with a demonstration of use CMakeL10n in two modules:
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/abakus/pulls/1https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/pulls/19
After testing, we will need to add CMakeL10n.txt to generate POT files in
all other modules. Once we have automated updating of POT files,
translation work can begin!
6. How can users work on translations?
I will leave the answer to this question for later. Whoever was more
attentive could have noticed in several earlier commits that "something
is being prepared" :)
Cheers
--
Slávek
Hi,
I have ubuntu 18.4 with trinity R14.0.5. If I want to start the arduino
ide from arduino.cc (download and extract arduino-1.8.7-linux64.tar.xz)
there comes the splash-screen for one second and it crashes with this
message:
~/arduino-1.8.7$ ./arduino
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS:
TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for
writing
What I have to install or change? Thank you very much for the great Desktop.
The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to
announce that the TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool has been
updated to the Gitea 1.6.x series.
This new release of Gitea brings some interesting things, such as the Code
Review and Approval and Issue Dependencies. For a detailed description,
see the Gitea 1.6.0 announcement:
https://blog.gitea.io/2018/11/gitea-1.6.0-is-released/
TDE core developers are already using TGW on a daily basis and they hope
more and more users and contributors will join them soon.
Read more about TGW and how to use it on the wiki
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/TDE_Gitea_Workspace and access the
workspace at https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea .
Hi,
I have seen many changes recently in the tools cmake or automake and I tried
to rebuild my TDE repository over the weekend.
tdelibs-trinity failed because it needs libpkcs11-helper1-dev which depends
on libssl1.0-dev
other packages however depend on libssl-dev like:
kasablanca-trinity
tdeaddons-trinity
tqca-tls
tdebase
If I change the control file to libssl-dev | libssl1.0-dev it all works.
What can we do about that? Perhaps you have better insight in the
difference between two packages.
I also can't build couple of packages like kplayer or krecipes for example
./.libs/libkplayernoinst.a(libkplayernoinst_la.all_cpp.o)
(.data.rel.ro+0x1048): undefined reference to `static_QUType_ptr'
./.libs/libkplayernoinst.a(libkplayernoinst_la.all_cpp.o)
(.data.rel.ro+0x1068): undefined reference to `static_QUType_ptr'
What can I do about that?
thanks
regards
Hello !
On my freshly (2 month ago or so) installed trinity desktop
(4:14.0.5-0debian9.0.0+0) memory usage of Xorg process grows all the
time, it's now 66 of available 170 GB virtual memory after 1 day
running and in two or three days the system will kill Xorg because the
virtual memory will end. Otherwise it works fine.
Here is the output of "xrestop" saying that most of the memory is used
by KDE Desktop:
res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier
1e00000 42 31 0 1654 1674 92369288K 40K 92369329K 77215
KDE Desktop
(and yes, I don't know why it shows 92G which is more than 66G
reported by htop for Xorg process)
Is there any known workaround for this?
Please set Cc: to my address, because otherwise gmail tends to lose
some e-mails from TDE lists, thanks!
Hi all,
we all know that Tim is usually very busy and it's hard to get in touch
with him. For everyday work on the project, this is not a major problem.
However, there are tasks for which Tim's hands are necessary. For
example, uploading ISO images for Ubuntu 18.04 with TDE 14.0.5 into the
official mirror system, adding Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic) to QuickBuild,
creating GIT repositories for next applications, changes to web pages,
etc.
The problem is, there has been no way to contact Tim for the past 1.5
months. There is no reaction to mails - neither in mailing lists nor in
direct contact. At Trinity IRC rooms Tim is not present. Every attempt to
contact Tim over the Internet is unsuccessful.
Please, is there anyone in the mailing list who can get in touch with Tim?
Is there, for example, someone who has personal contact with Tim and can
tell him that there are some tasks for which he is needed?
Cheers
--
Slávek
