Add local home directory path support for localization.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/swaystatus/Cargo.toml b/swaystatus/Cargo.toml
index 4728f34..ce213ec 100644
--- a/swaystatus/Cargo.toml
+++ b/swaystatus/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ description = "Fully modular status bar text updater, similar to i3bar."
 
 [dependencies]
 crossbeam-utils = "0.8"
-gettext-rs = "0.6.0"
+gettext-rs = { version = "0.6.0", features = ["gettext-system"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 erased-serde = "0.3"
 toml = "0.5"
diff --git a/swaystatus/src/main.rs b/swaystatus/src/main.rs
index 90d861d..87608a9 100644
--- a/swaystatus/src/main.rs
+++ b/swaystatus/src/main.rs
@@ -9,12 +9,17 @@ extern crate gettextrs;
 use gettextrs::*;
 use crossbeam_utils::thread;
 use std::sync::mpsc;
+use dirs;
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub mod test_plugin;
 
 fn main() {
-    if let Err(_e) = TextDomain::new("swaystatus").prepend("target").init() {
+    let text_domain = match dirs::data_dir() {
+        Some (p) => TextDomain::new("swaystatus").prepend("target").push(p),
+        None => TextDomain::new("swaystatus").prepend("target")
+    };
+    if let Err(_e) = text_domain.init() {
         eprintln!("Localization could not be loaded. Will use English instead.");
     }
     let commandline_parameters = commandline::parse_commandline();