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

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI Martin,

thanks, I also found it and I testing it, see my note from my previous email.

> 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 Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 11:21 AM Martin Lippert <mlippert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey Lars,
>
> Maybe this helps?
> https://github.com/buchen/fix-info-plist-maven-plugin
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
>
>
>
> 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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