Menu item translation

You have to use a different module to translate meu item titles and descriptions: i18n.

Entity translation only concerns content translation.

At the moment the menu item translation widget appears only on the node edit form.

+1 for adding support for menu translations when using entity translation for content type

support added in i18n through a patch follow discussion in #1182058: Add Entity Translation (entity_translation) support for menu items using Menu Translation

or similar solution of creating a different menu per language can be found in #1182314: Node translation doesn't work correctly with Menu Items

To summarize the state of this issue

i18n module can help in creating translations of menu items for entity translation enabled nodes
but the way to make an item translated is only through the menu management which means at best 3-6 more clicks and page loads for each language you want translated (more details in #1182058: Add Entity Translation (entity_translation) support for menu items using Menu Translation )

The perfect user experience would be to have a textfield in the translation form for the language where you can specify the translated menu title (much like there is a textfield for URL alias specific for the language)

I have the feeling this should be handled by the entity_translation module

If I get a chance I will try to create a patch for it but I certainly would need a direction on what function should be modified ...

I'm planning to address this together with the integration for pathauto, since they both involve introducing additional widgets on the translation form. I'll experiment in these days with CTools to fix these issues.

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I need the ability to translate menu items. At the moment the only way to do it seems to be creating translation sets of menu items that all point to the same path, manually, on the admin/build/menu page, a very laborious process. And we end up with lots of duplicate menu items. I suppose that even with this fix we will have duplicate menu items, but at least it would be easier to manage them.

I'd be glad to help test this if there was a patch. Not sure I understand the inner workings well enough to propose a patch.

This is probably going to be solved by #1282018: Improve UX of language-aware entity forms. Leaving this open to ensure ET integrates nicely with i18n_menu afterwards.

I've created a patch to be able to use i18n to translate menu items for entities which use entity_translation: #1182058: Add Entity Translation (entity_translation) support for menu items using Menu Translation
Unfortunately only minimal parts were committed.
I would love to see more movement there. Maybe we can try to join forces to push this further.

The i18n_menu module has now been patched to support menu items with entity-translation enabled entities (see #1182058: Add Entity Translation (entity_translation) support for menu items using Menu Translation). By default menu items are created as language neutral and can be translated via string localization.

Proper UI support for translating menu items belonging to ET-nodes is still missing; for more info see #1444866: UI for translation of menu items for entity-translated nodes. I'm marking this issue as duplicate, because #1444866 currently has a working patch.