Given that GNOME has used a vertical workspace layout ever since 3.0,
allowing users to assign keyboard shortcuts for horizontal workspace
navigation isn't useful at all, as rightfully pointed out by Bastien
Nocera.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645460
intltool is unmaintained nowadays while upstream gettext gained
support for formats like GSettings schemas and .desktop files,
and offers a mechanism to teach it about other XML formats not
yet supported out of the box which we can use for the rest.
So there's nothing stopping us, just make the switch ...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769073