French, German, ... languages for obmenu-generator

[ghost]

Hi,
Can this scenario be accomplished.
We install ArchMerge in French. Xfce shows all menu's in French.
We go to openbox. Only pipemenu places is in French.
Can we have the menu's generated from Obmenu-generator also in French.
If so... how?
This is an example of a French installation.

[trizen]

Hi. See the example in the config.pl file for name_keys.

[trizen]

After thinking a little bit more about this, I think we can do better.

In this commit, I added experimental locale support, which automatically detects what language to use for the name of each entry, based on (LC_ALL LC_MESSAGES LANGUAGE LANG) (more info: here).

This change requires a new dependency: File::DesktopEntry (available as perl-file-desktopentry in the Arch extra repository).

In order to test this new feature, please:

• Install Linux::DesktopFiles version 0.25
• Install File::DesktopEntry
• Execute:
  • git clone https://github.com/trizen/obmenu-generator
  • perl obmenu-generator/obmenu-generator -d -i -s -c

[trizen]

Locale support has been added in version 0.82. Closing this now. Feel free to re-open it if something is not working as expected.

[luca-vercelli]

Please, can you explain how this works? I am using version 0.85, however I still see English menus only.

My environment has: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
No LC_ALL, no LC_MESSAGES, no LANGUAGE

[trizen]

See: https://metacpan.org/release/File-DesktopEntry/source/lib/File/DesktopEntry.pm

File::DesktopEntry uses the language data from the .desktop files (/usr/share/applications/*.desktop).

However, not many applications have different names in different languages, therefore the change may not be visible.

Additionally, the name of the categories have to be translated manually in the schema.pl file.