Translations (i18n)

mdgreet natively supports multiple languages using gettext.

Strings are marked for translation in both Rust (gettext("...")) and Slint (@tr("...")).

Managing Translations

We provide Nix-based shell scripts to easily extract and update translations. These are available in your nix develop shell.

If you add a new string to the code, update the template file (po/mdgreet.pot):

i18n-extract

Merge the new strings from the .pot template into a specific language file (e.g., Russian - ru.po):

i18n-update ru

Then, open po/ru.po in a text editor or a tool like Poedit to translate the empty strings.

Initialize a new .po file for a language (e.g., French - fr):

i18n-init fr

You can test translations without changing your system language by prefixing the cargo run command with the LANG environment variable:

LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 cargo run -- --demo