On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 09:26:37PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 09:28:32PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > > > My feeling is that a dir per language should be the best option in the > > > long > > > run. A possibility would be to have LL/dir and either an explicit > > > search path set by the user, or set based on the locale. This would > > > probably require adding some information on the document language > > > install-info can get from installed Info manuals. > > > > > > It could also be possible to fallback to the english manual in the Info > > > reader if the language is not found. > > > > > > And it could also be useful to have a virtual menu in the Info reader > > > where all the translations of a manual can be found. > > > > > > Note that implementation could wait a bit, as there aren't that many > > > translated manuals, but I think that it would be nice to have a design > > > ready. > > > > > > comments, thoughts? > > > > I don't understand how this would work, when there are both translated > > and untranslated manuals on the system. Having LL/dir goes against > > your previous proposal to have all the manuals in the same directory > > by appending _LL to the names of the translated manuals. > > I have not checked the code, but do no think that it goes against > my other proposal, as I think that the location of the dir file and of > Info manuals can be different, and I do not think that the Info readers > search relatively to the (dir) directory, or at least not only. > > To me, the dir file, conceptually is only the list of Info manuals, not > of their locations, the Info manuals are found independently. Hence the > proposal to have the list in a subdirectory, because the "dir" name is > fixed, while the manuals that have a disambiguated name can all be in > the same directory.
I don't think it makes sense to have an LL directory with only a "dir" file in it, referencing files one directory level up. If there is an LL directory it should contain the Info files as well.
