Flatpak locale not working/load (French)

Hello,

First of all, thanks for your work on this amazing app!

I saw that you’ve made GUI translation available for several languages including French, but after installing and setup the app, I still have english language display on button into the GUI, I’ve digging a bit before posting an issue but so far I’m out of luck to get things work.

• System: Fedora 36
• Flatpak version: 1.12.7
• System language : French

Installation (system)

Command used for install:

> flatpak install flathub com.github.tenderowl.frog

I have also forced the installation of locale (even if they where still installed by default)

> flatpak install flathub com.github.tenderowl.frog.Locale

Try a flatpak update after install (in case something missing)

> flatpak update

Configuration (system)

This is some output of my system configuration:

> flatpak config --system --list

languages: fr;en (default: fr)
extra-languages: *unset*

> flatpak config --user --list

languages: fr;en (default: fr)
extra-languages: *unset*

Informations (flatpak)

> flatpak info com.github.tenderowl.frog

Frog - Extract text from anywhere, even QR code

ID: com.github.tenderowl.frog
Ref: app/com.github.tenderowl.frog/x86_64/stable
Arch: x86_64
Branch: stable
Version: 1.1.1
License: MIT
Origin: flathub
Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Installation: system
Installed: 26,4 MB
Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/42
Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/42

Commit: b14bfaf3fcdb7dd3d6e9f4aacff5d0e459ef30498f661edc8a354f77b511d726
Parent: 33449479830dd70e38cdbbf257aba67bb3511cf838aebac7cf0f1f41cabacea6
Subject: Update to 1.1.2 (9910ebcd)
Date: 2022-06-07 10:51:01 +0000

> flatpak info com.github.tenderowl.frog.Locale

ID: com.github.tenderowl.frog.Locale
Ref: runtime/com.github.tenderowl.frog.Locale/x86_64/stable
Arch: x86_64
Branch: stable
Origin: flathub
Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Installation: system
Installed: 512 bytes

Commit: dac13a117167ba47667cf6e6a0f8f8c7127b2112cfcfd0ea3068879aeb85cb94
Parent: 23eea8c74d1ed72b4d1b3d1cfd9677896cd11616601b97075d16b29cf1ce5de7
Subject: Update to 1.1.2 (9910ebcd)
Date: 2022-06-07 10:51:06 +0000
Subdirectories: /en,/fr

Locales (testing)

So far I’ve try to dig a bit and it seems that translation file are not present in the flatpak build (I don’t know if this is relevant):

> flatpak run --command=ls com.github.tenderowl.frog /app/share/locale/

ja  ru

> ls -la /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.github.tenderowl.frog/current/active/files/share/locale/

total 8
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4096  1 janv.  1970 .
drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root 4096  1 janv.  1970 ..
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   38  9 juin  11:37 ja -> ../../share/runtime/locale/ja/share/ja
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   38  9 juin  11:37 ru -> ../../share/runtime/locale/ru/share/ru

> ls -la /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.github.tenderowl.frog/current/active/files/share/runtime/locale/

total 16
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096  1 janv.  1970 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096  1 janv.  1970 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096  1 janv.  1970 ja
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096  1 janv.  1970 ru

Even running the application and forcing environment doesn’t to work to get French language:

> flatpak run --env=LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8 com.github.tenderowl.frog

Links

I’ve find some links related to that kind of issue, one that might be relevant is:

• https://github.com/flathub/org.gnome.Rhythmbox3/issues/53

I’m missing some knowledge about how flatpak might interact between runtime and app but I don’t understand why it’s not working at all for me to get French language in GUI.

Other flatpak app are working with French language so I think it might be related to how Frog handle things, I don’t know if anyone have the same issue for other language, I haven’t found any issue related on this repository (open or closed).

Thanks for your feedback on this matter when you’ll get time, have a nice day.

[amka]

Oh, dear. I was sure weblate will update this. Thank you @flipflop97!

[amka]

Ah, I found the issue. We’re gonna need to update translation files and it will work again.