[09:30] <cccangel> hello.
[09:31] <cccangel> im in my first semester of college going to school to be a software programmer and I am trying to specialize and put emphasis on learning stuff that would better help linux technologies and help me find a job in the field supporting linux technology.
[09:37] <JanC> hello, cccangel, nice goal ☺
[09:38] <cccangel> im in both  this dev channel and ubuntustudio mainly because i expressed curiousity in learning some new things so i can contribute
[09:39] <cccangel> i learned Visual C# and Java along with web dev but now I love ubuntu as a replacement and see its potential and ...
[09:39] <cccangel> btw i am doing a speech project and its going to be an advocate speech for ubuntu 12.04
[18:43] <commandoline> Hi. I'm currently writing an open-source PyQt4 application. It uses gettext for translations (because Qt's system isn't supported by Launchpad). As far as I understand, the 'default' way in Ubuntu is to store them into /usr/share/locale/ . Does that mean I also need to place the files there while developing? And how to maintain compatibility with other OS's (i.e. mainly windows and mac)?
[18:44] <commandoline> another question behind it is: What's 'the recommended' file structure for a project like this?
[18:49] <jalcine> Which other files are you referring to?
[18:50] <commandoline> well, the mo files normally go in /usr/share/locale
[18:50] <commandoline> but when I'm developing and want to test some translations, where should I store them then?
[18:52] <commandoline> somewhere inside my project, or is it 'normal' to just put them inside the /usr/share/locale dir?
[18:57] <jalcine> After installing and what-not, they should go within /usr/share/locale, but if you're just trying to test it out in the app, use QTranslator to switch the app's language.
[18:57] <jalcine> It should pick it up.
[18:58] <commandoline> I'm using gettext, but yes, gettext would see the files in that directory. So while testing, I should just place the mo files manually into /usr/share/locale?
[19:17] <JackyAlcine> Sorry for my latency, but yes.
[19:18] <commandoline> ok, thanks JackyAlcine :)