[MonoDevelop] German translation

[Todd Berman]

Viktor Stansvik wrote:
> Hi. I just created a swedish translation by:
> 
> 1. Downloading the tarball
> 
> 2. Entering the po/ directory and running 'intltool-update --pot'
> 
> 3. 'cp monodevelop.pot sv_SE.po'
> 
> 4. Adding translated strings to sv_SE.po
> 
> 5. 'intltool-update sv_SE'
> 
> 6. Converting sv_SE.po to utf-8 by running 
>    'msgconv -t UTF-8 sv_SE.po > sv_SE.po.new && mv sv_SE.po.new
> sv_SE.po'
> 
> 7. Adding sv_SE to ALL_LINGUAS in configure.in
> 
> 8. running ./configure and make (but not make install, I already have
>    monodevelop installed from an ebuild)
> 
> 9. Creating a .mo file by running msgfmt -cv sv_SE.po and copying it
>    to /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/
> 
> 
> After this I thought I could test the translation by entering the
> build/bin/ directory and running MonoDevelop.exe from there, but I
> seemed to be wrong.
> 
> What do I have to do to test my translation? I noticed that no .gmo file
> was created during any of the steps described above, has it got
> something to do with that?
> 
> Hope I provided enough info for you to help me.
> 
> - Viktor

I believe the make install process handles everything properly, but I am 
not sure.

So you can most likely look there to see what it is doing exactly.

--Todd