Bug 505993

Summary: Tile manager doesn‘t use translations (it is only shown in English)
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl>
Component: Custom TilingAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: notmart
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Karl Ove Hufthammer 2025-06-22 18:30:19 UTC 
SUMMARY
The strings in the tile manager is always shown in English, not in the user‘s preferred language. There *are* strings to translate in kwin.po(t) and kwin_x11.po(t), but the translations are not used.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Change the default/preferred Plasma language to something other than English (I use Norwegian Nynorsk).
2. Launch the tile manager by pressing ‘Meta + T’.
3. Observe the text on the buttons/widgets. 


OBSERVED RESULT
The text says, e.g., ‘Split Left/Right’, ‘Padding:’ and ‘Load layout...’.

EXPECTED RESULT
The text should be translated, e.g., ‘Del venstre/høgre’ instead of ‘Split Left/Right’.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250618
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.2-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Comment 1 Karl Ove Hufthammer 2025-06-22 18:34:51 UTC 
Closing. Turns out that the package kwin6-x11-lang wasn’t installed on my system (for some strange reason). After I installed it and restarted Plasma, everything is OK.