Hi Wookey,
Thank you very much for the review and for all your help on this
package.
Regarding the user-defined database: it is actually empty by default.
What you are seeing most likely comes from opening examples or project
files — when a file is opened, its materials are automatically added to
the user-defined database for reuse. Since many bundled examples were
originally created in French, their material names remain in French.
If you want to reproduce a completely fresh state, removing
~/.local/share/conducteo/materials-v3.db should reset the user-defined
materials list.
I agree this can look odd from an English UI perspective and could be
improved, but I do not think it should block this upload.
So I would say: please go ahead with this one.
Thanks again for all your time and suggestions — they helped improve
Conducteo considerably.
Best regards,
Clément
Le 19.05.2026 13:26, Wookey a écrit :
On 2026-05-18 12:57 +0200, [email protected] wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have now addressed the remaining review points and uploaded an
updated package to mentors (`5.0.2-1`).
That was a quick turnaround to include all the materials translation I
sent last night!
Changes since the previous upload include:
* moved documentation to `/usr/share/doc/conducteo/`
final deb 12MB rather than 22MB without all the docs duplicated, so
that's good.
* moved examples to `/usr/share/doc/conducteo/examples/`
* added `doc-base` integration
* fixed the quickstart guide opening on first launch
confirmed
* added translation support for the materials database
Excellent. This is now easily useable by non-French speakers.
Thanks for that work.
One bit of Frenchness still showing through is the 'user-defined
database', which still shows French material names. Those should be
showing translated names too? I'm not sure where that list comes from
(I have not tried to add or remove any in that list).
Hmm, adding one I see that you get to set the name yourself (they are
not copied from the main, translated database). So that explains it,
but it still looks odd to have a 'user-defined' list of 20 materials
in a foreign language by default. You could just make it empty by
default, or pick a couple of examples that look the same in French and
English like 'Aluminium' and 'Air' (so it's easy to see that the
feature is there)?
I also rebuilt and tested the package in a clean Debian environment.
Documentation, examples and localisation now work correctly.
Thank you again for your detailed review and suggestions. If you have
time for another look, I would greatly appreciate it.
This package is now fine to upload to debian.
There are still things to improve (like the user-defined list above,
and full translation of the main docs), but we are done from a
technical debian standards and basic non-French useability point of
view.
Do you want to fix the user-defined database thing first and then I
upload, or shall I go with this one?
Wookey
