On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Michael Bauer <f...@akerbeltz.org> wrote:
> Just filed a bug after some off list suggestions. > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82184 > > It may be accidental and I know projects like LO are always short of folk > but it's inexcusable. It stumps new/inexperienced users (i.e. most) at a > point before they even use the program. In terms of usability, it's like > hiding the Save button three layers down in the UI menu. It should have > been fixed as a matter of priority when LO first forked, even before > cleaning code. It's not icing. > > A bug report is the way to go. However, the content of this bug report is quite passive aggressive. It includes many separate issues while each bug report normally covers a single issue. Frankly, it does not make it easy to attract a developer to work on this. This localization issue is important and it has to be dealt with properly. Specifically, 1. Bug reports about the installation can be found at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?product=LibreOffice&component=Installation&resolution=--- 2. The issue about language sorting already has a bug report, at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81786 Most probably, the sorting is based on the language codes ("de" for German, etc). If you notice from the above bug report, the reporter says "In German locale it is also unsorted. 'Weißrussisch' comes before 'Bulgarisch'." Well, the language code for Belarus is "be" and for Bulgaria is "bg". Therefore, the sorting currently is probably by language code. The language codes and language names are probably stored in a data structure that makes it easy to change the sorting from language code to language name. It is probably a one-line code change and it is something that we can easily try ourselves and produce a patch! 3. There is another bug report, "Default Installer Language", https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63827 The desktop session of the user has some system locale, and the installer picks the system locale to show messages in the installer. If a user wants a specific other language, they should change the operating system settings so their desktop session has a different locale (every operating system has a way to change these). In the bug report, Andras Timar mentions that, once the Installer has started in a specific language, then it is not possible to switch the messages of the installer in another language. I can think of a few workarounds, such as an additional multilingual installer, that offers to select the installer language and then will run the normal installer with our selected language settings. Any workaround requires some thinking so as not to interfere with the common case where we want the language to be autodetected. 4. For some cases it might be beneficial to build installation packages that show messages in a specific language only. That is, create installers that have the language hard-coded in them, which also include all relevant material for a language (spelling, etc). It is possible to do such a thing. That is, set up the software building environment that will automatically build installation packages for specific languages. Simos -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
