Follow-up Comment #45, task #115 (project savane):
We already had this discussion and I'm strongly, firmly and definitively
against the idea of Savane reinventing the wheel in this regard.
When you use 'ls', when you use 'konqueror', when you use 'gimp', etc, there
is no way to configure the language inside the software.
Because this is supposed to be done already on top, in the desktop
configuration. Adding such option would be severely confusing, would incitate
users to expect software to behave in inconsistant way, to work with setup
broken by design.
That's not an option. A web application is an application and there's no
reason to push users, to incitate users to think it is the correct way to get
i18n to be configured for the 100 web application they use with a form inside
each.
There are many benefits of having a properly configured browser (to name one:
apache redirects per language), that provide i18n settings, that's what we
must recommend. That the ideal way to do things and this is not pure theory.
There are some web application that have such form to configure i18n, but I
think the choice their made was from the start a bad one. If you cannot get a
necessary configuration information, the way to go is not to ask the user to
fill it one more time, but to work on getting the information properly from
where it comes.
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