Translating Gnome Top Level Menus

[Essien Ita Essien]

Xavier Conde Rueda wrote:
> Hi Essien,
>
> i think you can see which .mo files are being accessed for an
> application. Just run gnome-system-monitor, select a process and look
> at its memory map or shared dlls. The .mo objects used should be
> displayed as shared objects.
>   
Hi Xavier,

That does help a bit to see which .mo files are used by which 
applications. Thanks a lot.
But i don't know which application is responsible for generating the 
those menusitems under "Applications", for instance "Accessories", 
"Graphics", "Programming" etc,

Anyone know which app does that? Is it metacity? or gnome-panel? or 
gnome-session?

Is there any caching that goes on when a .mo file is accessed? Like is 
there any thing that could lead to an app caching its .mo file contents 
_away_ from the /usr/share/locale/[xx]/LC_MESSAGES folder? if this can 
happen then this may explain my issues.
> I think this question arised some weeks ago on this list too.
>   
oh yeah? Lemme search around see what i can find. Any more info is much 
appreciated.
> Hope this help.
>
> 2006/4/7, Essien Ita Essien <essien at wazobialinux.com>:
>   
>> Hiya all,
>>
>> I'm on a team that's currently translating Fedora into some three major
>> Nigerian Languages.
>> Currently, we're translating Gnome and my approach is to start from
>> highly visible packages and span outwards.
>>
>> I have identified these areas so far:
>>
>> gnome-panel-2.0 [contains strings for the panel 'Application', 'Places',
>> 'Desktop', 'Run Applications', 'Lock Screen', etc]
>> gnome-session [contains strings for the splash screen, etc]
>> nautilus [contains strings for the Desktop icons 'Computer' 'Trash', etc]
>>
>> So far... i have not been able to identify the po file that contains the
>> strings for the top level MenuItems like 'Graphics', 'Internet',
>> 'Programming', 'Accessories', etc.
>>
>> I decided to play Sherlock Holmes on the matter, and I logged in with
>> the Danish locale. Made sure the menus where all in Danish. Then I
>> proceded to delete _all_ .mo files in /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES
>> and I logged out, restarted my system and logged in again... but..
>> voila!!! The Top level menus are still in Danish when i log in with the
>> Danish locale! infact, i'm looking at them... right now 'Grafik',
>> 'Kontor', 'Progremmering', etc.
>>
>> My question is... which file contains these strings?
>>
>> I had thought it was gnome-desktop, gnome-menus or redhat-menus, but
>> after deleting _ALL_ the files in /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES, i
>> don't think so anymore (tho looking at these po files, i see the same
>> strings repeated thru out the three files)
>>
>> Any ideas first.. which program is responsible for generating those
>> strings... and then which po files contain them.
>>
>> Thanks and Cheers,
>> Essien
>>
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