| Summary: | Application descriptions don’t fall back to other languages (or English) when translations are missing | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] Discover | Reporter: | Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl> |
| Component: | discover | Assignee: | Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <leinir> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | aleixpol, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 5.18.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Screenshot showing Discover with missing translations | ||
Created an issue upstream because there's not much we can do from Discover. https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/293 Sorry about this issue. It definitely is not a good look. Upstream says it's addressed, if you could retest with 0.14, I'd appreciate it. https://github.com/ximion/appstream/commit/be026a40d89544d67fc7980bd17ef0db744fbef4 |
Created attachment 128093 [details] Screenshot showing Discover with missing translations SUMMARY When the appdata for an application is only partially translated, i.e. some strings are translated and some are not, the non-translated strings are simply hidden, instead of being shown in the fall-back language (e.g. English). This make the description of the application very confusing. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Set your language preferences in KDE to Norwegian Nynorsk (nn). 2. Start Discover. 3. Search for KGeography. OBSERVED RESULT The application descriptions only shows the text ‘Funksjonar:’ (translation of ‘Features:’), nothing else (see screenshot). EXPECTED RESULT The strings that are translated into ‘nn’ in the appdata file should be shown translated while the other strings (here: description of KGeography and list of features) should be shown in a fall-back language (the second, third etc. preferred language, or ultimately English), just like it does for normal UI strings in application. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20200428 KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.69.0 Qt Version: 5.14.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I think this *used* to work?