On 5 January 2018 at 13:51, Felix Schumacher <felix.schumac...@internetallee.de> wrote: > Am 04.01.2018 um 17:31 schrieb Philippe Mouawad: >> >> Hello, >> >> Currently we provide ability to translate JMeter GUI in many languages. >> In our tests we only ensure French translations are available because we >> have french team members. >> >> For other languages, we are in best effort and most probably the UI looks >> non professional for many users as there will be a mix of english and non >> english labels. >> >> I am aware that it's a controversial topic and many people probably rely >> on >> translated GUI BUT: >> >> - I dislike the fact that GUI looks non professional >> - Why don't we have more translation contributions if they are used ? >> - It's a certain piece of work to maintain and create those >> translations >> >> So unless there is a magical way to fully translate all labels and >> maintain >> them efficiently, I am in favor of: >> >> - Having english forced in setup instead of relying on default locale. >> It seems this happened accidentally in 3.3 and nobody complained about >> it. >> - In a second step, and unless there is a big move to help on >> translation, I propose to drop all languages, even french one as it's >> an >> additional work and we have other and a lot of things to do >> >> >> Thoughts :-) ? > > > I am not against the default language 'en', as it is the one used in the > manual and therefore the best match.
Agreed. > But I am against the removal of the option to switch languages, as there > were contributions in this area, which indicates, that this feature is > useful to some. Agreed. Also if a local user wants to fix the display for their language, they can do so just by updating/providing the appropriate property files. This ability would disappear if language support is dropped. A missing/incorrect translation does not prevent JMeter working, and if it bothers a user sufficiently hopefully they will provide a patch. I agree with Graham that the way forward is to make it really easy to provide translation updates. > Felix > >
