From a5cccbe7574be518ebf118a6a31b583ff2b8857e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Jones <cmsj@tenshu.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:43:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] refactor this to not use gettext's __builtin__ hack

---
 terminatorlib/translation.py | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/terminatorlib/translation.py b/terminatorlib/translation.py
index 0e825a86..62b6a7f0 100644
--- a/terminatorlib/translation.py
+++ b/terminatorlib/translation.py
@@ -20,16 +20,18 @@
 from version import APP_NAME
 from util import dbg
 
+_ = None
+
 try:
     import gettext
-    gettext.install(APP_NAME)
+    gettext.textdomain(APP_NAME)
+    _ = gettext.gettext
 except ImportError:
     dbg("Using fallback _()")
-    import __builtin__
 
     def dummytrans (text):
         """A _ function for systems without gettext. Effectively a NOOP"""
         return(text)
 
-    __builtin__.__dict__['_'] = dummytrans
+    _ = dummytrans