Re: [eclipse-dev] How to make the Mac generated menu entries language sp

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alex,

sorry for taking so long to answer, I still don't have a Mac and the
client was fighting with other priority issues.

Today we looked into this, and AFAICS standard Tycho or Eclipse does
not provide a way to provide a custom info.plist or to change it.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=339526 was closed as
won't fix.
Also default Tycho does not seem to support it, we found
https://github.com/buchen/fix-info-plist-maven-plugin which might do
what we want, once we tried it, I will update this email thread.

Best regards, Lars

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 6:59 AM Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks Alex, I will ask the client (who has the Mac, unfortunately I
> don't have one), to try that out.
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 5:39 PM Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > They are added by the OS rather than the app itself, based on the language of the runtime.
> >
> > It might be that the generated info.plist has a CFBundleLocalization that only specified English, which would mean that the app works default to that for the OS provided entries.
> >
> > You can add multiple languages in the info.plist as shown in this answer, and/or change it from English to German.
> >
> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8350151/cfbundlelocalizations-info-plist-how-to-put-multiple-languages#8352129
> >
> > If the plist isn’t an xml file you can use plutil to convert it from binary format to xml to do the edits. I forget the exact syntax but it’s something like plutil -convert xml1.
> >
> > There’s also a plistbuddy executable somewhere in /usr/sbin that can help script these edits if you are looking to put it in a pipeline, and it doesn’t need to be in xml form to do that.
> >
> > Sorry afk so can’t test these out directly now.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone 📱
> >
> > On 20 Oct 2021, at 08:34, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > The Preferences and about menu entries come from us, so we can translate them.
> >
> > The question is for the other standard menu items, like Hide, Show all, Services which are not contributed by our RCP app.
> >
> > Best regards, Lars
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb am Mi., 20. Okt. 2021, 17:29:
> >>
> >> Is this the “standard” menu items like “preferences”, “hide” etc? Or is it all of them?
> >>
> >> I think the “standard” names are taken from Mac rather than being provided in an NL file, based on what locale setting the mac is in.
> >>
> >> Alex
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone 📱
> >>
> >> > On 20 Oct 2021, at 07:53, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > in a RCP app, the generated menu entries under Mac are not translated
> >> > to German even though we start the application with the "-nl de. See
> >> > rcp.png.
> >> >
> >> > If we check other Mac applications like Safari, see the safari
> >> > screenshot, these are in the correct language.
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone know how to achieve the same for the RCP application under Mac?
> >> >
> >> > Best regards, Lars
> >> >
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