This is an excellent question, and I am sure there is plenty of people who will support this in various ways. Now on to some technical issues, tools, and solutions.
A fair bit of work has already been done on 'internationalization' (please see documentation and http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Internationalization for specifics and examples). That said, I am sure that some of the UI's are missing any internationalization support. One of the problems in the past is that the UI's were written in any one of a number of different tool chains -- including tcltk, gl, Qt, python binding, and I am not sure what all. From the linuxcnc/src/po/README file I see that they give some specific examples, and how to. There is current support for 14 different languages and 3 extra regional dialects or additional languages. What I do not know is if the current tools and implementation can switch languages on the fly (ie by a pull down menu, and refresh in the new language). It is possible that that functionality already exists, but oneone has updated it, or (which is more likely) that the necessary low level functionality does not exist in the tools used. I know that I tried to do exactly what you are suggesting back in 2001 using Qt -- they were just coming out with that support in their professional tools, but not in their free version, and I was developing open-source tools for ecologists at the university (ie not paid, and could not afford to pony up the $5K IIRC)... So to help drill down into the question and how current implementations do not support your needs please read take a look at the URL above, play with them a bit, and tell us where it is not working and what you would want to change. Once we have that information we can have a discussion about if the request is something that anyone wants to take on and/or support. One thing that would help us is if you tell us which UI you would like to start with, and if you are looking to try to set it up on the fly or just support the additional languages. I like your idea of setting up a UI which is purely graphical. There is places where that will breakdown, but it could go a long way. For that look at the current UI's, like Axis, and tell use what you would change and why. Hope this helps, EBo -- On Oct 12 2016 12:21 AM, Marius Alksnys wrote: > My integrated machines are used by different language speaking people > quite often. Some of them speak / understand one language only. Thus > there is a need to create UIs which could be understood by different > spoken users. Currently there is a need for up to three languages on > one UI. > > > What is the best way to create and maintain such UIs or panels for > LinuxCNC? > > > My ideas: > 1. Create UI without texts, just icons, numbers, other visual > components. This includes various messages - warnings, errors, etc. > Where to get suitable icons for that, how to adapt them, what > practices > to follow? > 2. Let the user to choose the language (s)he prefers, for example, a > group of radio buttons with flags / abbreviations and by using > GladeVCP > - create python script which changes labels and texts of controls at > runtime depending on which language (or flag) button is activated. > 3. Use HAL and connected mentioned radio button hal pins to every HAL > "label"... Don't know how to do this yet. > 4. Use some native GladeVCP locale methods and translation files (?). > > More ideas and suggestions how to realise this? > > How about the messages from NGC, from custom HAL components? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
