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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1764156@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your report!

What happened was that the AppStream metadata generator started to pull
info from existing .desktop files for packages without explicit metainfo
files. The gnome-startup-applications binary package is one of a myriad
of such packages.

https://appstream.ubuntu.com/focal/main/issues/gnome-startup-
applications.html

Since gnome-session-properties.desktop does not include a Description
field, and as explained at the linked page, AppStream pulls that info
from the package description, which is not translated.

So adding an AppStream metainfo file might help. However, the gnome-
session source package is in main, and I'm not sure if the AppStream
metadata generator has the ability to get translations from the
/usr/share/locale-langpack directory. When looking at update manager,
for instance, there is a gettext-data-not-found warning which indicates
otherwise.

https://appstream.ubuntu.com/focal/main/issues/update-manager.html

** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764156

Title:
  Make all gnome-session-properties AppStream strings translatable

Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  New
Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The AppStream metadata were recently added for "Startup Applications"
  (gnome-session-properties) in Ubuntu 18.04; it would be nice if "The
  Startup Applications Preferences app allows configuring applications
  to run automatically when logging in to your desktop. This app
  complies with the FreeDesktop.org Desktop Application Autostart
  Specification so it will work even if your chosen desktop is not
  GNOME." string was translatable.

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