Archive for September, 2008

Gettext and QT4?

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Dear Lazyweb,

do you know how to translate QT4 applications with gettext? Looks like QT4 now uses it’s own mechanism (lupdate -> .ts -> linguist -> .ts -> lrelease -> .qm) for translating strings, which makes things a bit complicated if the rest of your application (the non GUI part) still uses gettext.

The background is — as some of you may have noticed — that rng’s GUI isn’t properly translated anymore since the switch from QT3 to QT4. I don’t know if I just should adopt QT4’s translation mechanism, but for now it would be very nice if I just could use my .po files for the QT4 stuff.