PREPARETIPS(1)

✨ preparetips ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the preparetips(1) glow-up 💅 this is the Translation Tool corner of the manual, and honestly? it's a lil guy with one job. but it does that job flawlessly, so let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

preparetips — extract text from tips file 💖

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it pulls the words out of a tips file so the translators can do their thing. iconic behavior, no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

preparetips

not me being obsessed with how there are literally zero arguments here 😭 she just goes. no flags, no options, no drama. she wakes up and she extracts.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so preparetips is a script — yes, a script, we're keeping it real — and its whole main character moment is extracting the text from a tips file. it outputs that text so that xgettext can add the tips to a PO file ✨

and if you're sitting there like "bestie what is a PO file" — PO files provide a human-readable string format that's used for translations 💖 so basically they're the little translator-friendly containers that hold all the strings, and preparetips is the one feeding them. iykyk.

and where does she look for the tips file, you ask? she looks for data/tips-en 🍓 that's the tips file. that's the one. that's the spot. periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• kdeoptions(7) — go read that one too, bestie, it's right there 👑

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💀 BUGS 💀

okay so if you find a bug, pls pls pls use bugs.kde.org to report it 🙈 do not mail the author directly. like, respectfully, do not. the author said what they said and we're honoring it 💅

fr fr, bug tracker only. the inbox is not the move.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Matthias Kiefer <matthias.kiefer@gmx.de>

Author. 🫶 (yes, that's the credit, and yes, they earned it)

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📝 NOTES 📝

1. bugs.kde.org http://bugs.kde.org

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌸 go forth and extract those tips. this was the K Desktop Environment version of the manual, dated 2006-06-01 — a certified vintage slay, honestly, and she still ate 💖✨🎀