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With some testing, I think I know the answer now...localized application name shown in application icon is defined by using *.mo file.
For example, we define a /usr/share/applications/hildon/MyApp.desktop file with the following contents:
Then we will need to prepare localized .po files (take zh_HK.po as example) with the following contents:
Use the msgfmt tool to generate the .mo file and place the .mo file to the corresponding locale directory:
Please note that the "MyApp" in the .mo filename must be the same as the value specified in the X-Text-Domain section of the .desktop file.
Don't forget to prepare two PNG images, one with 48x48 and one with 64x64 resolution, and place them to:
And that's it. You will see "好程式" as the application name when you switch to the zh_HK locale 
Last edited by amandalam; 2010-06-23 at 01:20.
For example, we define a /usr/share/applications/hildon/MyApp.desktop file with the following contents:
Code:
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=0.1 Name=MyAppName Comment=My App Exec=python /opt/MyApp/MyApp.py Icon=MyApp Type=Application X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true X-Text-Domain=MyApp
Code:
msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: MyApp\n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: my-email@my-email.com\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2010.05.16 14:11+0300\n" "PO-Revision-Date: 2010-06-21 12:26+0800\n" "Last-Translator: My Name <my-email@my-email.com>n" "Language-Team: en_US\n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1\n" msgid "MyAppName" msgstr "好程式"
Use the msgfmt tool to generate the .mo file and place the .mo file to the corresponding locale directory:
Code:
msgfmt zh_HK.po -o /usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/MyApp.mo
Don't forget to prepare two PNG images, one with 48x48 and one with 64x64 resolution, and place them to:
Code:
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/MyApp,png (48x48) /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/MyApp.png (64x64)
Last edited by amandalam; 2010-06-23 at 01:20.
I'm currently in the process of creating an application targeted for the Chinese communities. While it is possible to create localized UIs via *.po/*.mo as well as control file for packaging, I cannot find a way to display the localized name of the application in the application icon based on current system language.
I've read through the wiki page and it doesn't mention anything about localization. It does provide a freedesktop.org link for further reading and the freedesktop.org spec does mention something related. I then tried to modify the .desktop file of my app to the format similar to the following:
Name=MyApp Name in English
Name[zh_HK]=我的軟件 (MyApp Name in Chinese)
and reboot the device; but the application name in MyApp's icon is still the English one
I've checked for the .desktop files of the system's bundled programs (e.g. Image Viewer) and found that the values in their "Name" field are in fact some "keys" (e.g. "imag_ap_images") that are referred by some *.mo files in /usr/share/locale/{lang}/LC_MESSAGES/ . So I wonder:
I'm just a novice developer in the Maemo world and I'm looking forward to learning from you guys.