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tysontan

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Registered: 2023-02-15

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How do I contribute translations to archlinux-appstream-data

Hi guys. In software center apps like Discover and Gnome-Software, many applications don't have translations. In particular, no KDE application has any translation in any language, while most of them have their desktop/appdata files 100% translated.

I suppose the related data are stored in archlinux-appstream-data. I would like to contribute translations, or to help with this issue if there were a bug. Can someone take me to the right direction?

Thanks!

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

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Re: How do I contribute translations to archlinux-appstream-data

Works fine here. What is your locale?

tysontan

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Re: How do I contribute translations to archlinux-appstream-data

I use Simplified Chinese (zh-CN.UTF8). The same problem also happened on Ubuntu LiveCD.

tysontan

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Re: How do I contribute translations to archlinux-appstream-data

I'm sorry, I was wrong about "no KDE application has any translation in any language".

They do have some translations, but in the languages I use (Simplified Chinese), they are very old. Most of their data came from a time before 2018, and thus lacks translation for new and frequently updated applications like Krita and digiKam.

There appears to be a way to contribute to appstream-data. About 1 year ago, some Chinese translation for Krita appeared in Discover. But they weren't using the translation from Krita's appdata file. I never managed to find the source. And for some reason, those translations are now removed.

This issue has been plaguing us for years now. I suppose someone has to contribute to the right place to solve this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by tysontan (2023-02-17 00:46:56)

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,220

Re: How do I contribute translations to archlinux-appstream-data

Do you get localized descriptions when you run 'appstreamcli dump org.kde.krita'? If not, it's an appstream issue.

tysontan

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Registered: 2023-02-15

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Re: How do I contribute translations to archlinux-appstream-data

Thank you for the reply. I have reported this to KDE: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465897
They also tried appstreamcli but failed to get zh_CN translations.
The bug has now been passed to Discover project to investigate a potential bug in libappstream.
Although I reported the same bug to Discover ages ago, it never get picked up. Let's hope it gets picked up this time.

Thank you for the help!