[Qt-creator] Linguist

[Jason H]

> > The question is why it's not there by default.
> 
> My question is more why the lrelease and lupdate items are in Tools > External, and not in the context menu for .pro files ;)
> But since I added them there..... I know that it was mostly as an example for the external tools, and how they can get access to state in Qt Creator (the current project in this case).
> Just opening Linguist is not there, because you can either open it with a .ts file directly, or use whatever OS means you have to open applications (e.g. Spotlight on OS X, Start menu search on Windows, and the search thingy in Ubuntu, all sound like a much quicker and more comfortable way than navigating through menus to Tools > External > Linguist > Open Linguist).
> I’m not against having it there though, so feel free to upload a change.

My question is why we have to deal with lrelease at all? Seems like there should be a qmake auto build for .qm updates from .ts?

On OSX, Linguist is not in my spotlight :-( Anyone else in the same boat? Also it takes time to launch Spotlight, type 'lin' and get the results, it's jarring experience. If I could launch that in Creator, that'd be so much better. (I'm on a recent mid-range Mac mini, no SSD for me!)

Maybe Creator could get a "Translation" button in the left sidebar [Welcome/Edit/Design/Debug/TRANSLATE/Projects/Analyze/Help] and a native plug-in?
Alternative is a "Translations" project view option [Projects/Open Documents/Bookmarks/.../Translations] which shows the normal projects pane file list but also shows the strings in the files,with the editor window the Translation pane from Linugust. Don't get me wrong, Linguist needs to be kept, and work stand-alone so we don't have to give it to translators. But being able to preview the QML screens with translations would be very cool.

But given benefit-reward ratio, I'd just like to launch it from Creator.