Translate module names via make-messages.py

I'm not exactly sure what this means. Please reopen if it's still a problem.

The problem is, the admin doesn't try to translate module names - not even it's own module names it delivers with django. There was some discussion about this in the group:

http://groups.google.com/group/Django-I18N/browse_thread/thread/5f262db230bb393d

This could be incorporated in some way into the basic source - like adding gettext_noop() calls with the application names to some places, maybe __init__.py or some other code. It could even be some dummy line in the model definition - the gettext stuff doesn't care.

The idea is just to put a translation hook into some python file and to use the translation calls in the admin templates, so that application names can be translated as other stuff.

The only problem with this - and that's why I not just put in this solution - is that you would have to write the application name explicitely somewhere down. Currently it is taken from the module name, so this would be repetition for the sake of translation.

Comments?

Since nobody had any good suggestions and the solutions involved are rather hacky, I close this for now. Anybody with a good idea on how to solve this can open a new ticket. preferably with patch ;)

How about doing it like this in a models.py file:

VERBOSE_NAME = _('polls')

class Poll(models.Model):
    question = CharField(_('question'), maxlength=50)
    etc. etc.

Milestone Version 1.0 deleted

I'm going to close this for the same reason it was originally closed: nobody has come up with a good solution. Any acceptable solution will not require rewriting the model name again and will ideally not require running import on the Python file to extract the string name (because that can have side-effects when extracting the strings, including security problems).

Please don't reopen this ticket without first bringing up suggestions on the django-developers list.

I've created a patch for make-messages.py to add app names to django.po file. With this patch, make-messages.py creates a temporary html file with installed app names first, then runs make_messages() and removes temporary file.

I also changed the admin/index.html template because it's not translate app.names with blocktrans tag.

make-messages.py patch to add app names to django.po file

admin index.html patch to change blocktrans to trans for app.names

I think #3591 is related.