(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #9) > What I found out so far: > The kdelibs4 patches that read the translated entries from > desktop-translations haven't changed since 13.1 (where the problem didn't > exist), and are working fine. > But, they do not touch the code that reads the sevice menus and device > actions (i.e. "[Desktop Action xxx]" sections in the .desktop files), those > translations never were taken from desktop-translations, only from the > .desktop files themselves. > > In 13.1, those translations were part of the corresponding .desktop files, > and _not_ stripped and moved to desktop-translations. Now (13.2 and > Tumbleweed) they are, and the service menus and device actions are therefore > untranslated. > > So for me the question is: > Have those translations for "desktop actions" been split out on purpose or > by mistake? > If it's done on purpose, the KDE patches have to be modified. > If not, the thing that removes those translations (some buggy script maybe?) > should be corrected. > > Another question that I have would be why this (removing the translations > from the .desktop files) is not done for updates. This defeats the purpose > of having the translations in a separate package/file completely IMHO > because the translations from desktop-translations are not used at all any > more for most things if there are full KDE (and/or GNOME) updates. > > Btw, I think these KDE patches also have to be ported to KF5 and added > there, in particular if Plasma5 is to become the default desktop. > Although this bug report has been mentioned in the Plasma5 update (see > comment#1), I don't think this is the case yet. Thanks for detailed debugging! coolo, did we or you change something related before 13.2?