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Re: Translator files for the gui


From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: Translator files for the gui
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:52:22 -0500

On 14 January 2013 00:03, Torsten <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 14.01.2013 04:27, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> On 12 January 2013 14:09, Torsten <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> after updating the existing translator files in libgui/langauges for the
>>> gui I would like to actually make use of them. What is the best place
>>> for those files for the installed version of octave? 'etc', where the
>>> default-qt-settings file is located?
>>
>> /etc is for configuration files the user could potentially want to
>> modify by hand. Translation files are more like program data, not
>> configuration files. They should therefore go under /usr/share/octave
>> in the FHS.
>>
>
> I was not talking about the /etc but about octave's etc
> (/usr/local/share/octave/etc).

It should still go in $prefix/octave/share, since etc/ really is for
configuration files, not for program data.

- Jordi G. H.


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