Move the translation initialisation to an earlier stage, SL #3654

Must be done early, some activities set translations globally. Remove
the support for the langpackdir.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schampijer <simon@laptop.org>

bin/sugar-activity

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ import dbus.service
 import dbus.glib
 
 from sugar3.activity import activityhandle
+from sugar3.activity import i18n
+import sugar3
 from sugar3.bundle.activitybundle import ActivityBundle
 from sugar3 import logger
 
@@ -97,6 +99,12 @@ def main():
     os.environ['SUGAR_BUNDLE_NAME'] = bundle.get_name()
     os.environ['SUGAR_BUNDLE_VERSION'] = str(bundle.get_activity_version())
 
+    # must be done early, some activities set translations globally, SL #3654
+    locale_path = i18n.get_locale_path(bundle.get_bundle_id())
+    gettext.bindtextdomain(bundle.get_bundle_id(), locale_path)
+    gettext.bindtextdomain('sugar-toolkit', sugar3.locale_path)
+    gettext.textdomain(bundle.get_bundle_id())
+
     splitted_module = args[0].rsplit('.', 1)
     module_name = splitted_module[0]
     class_name = splitted_module[1]