And BTW, we have all accepted that flags for languages are bad. 2016-02-25 7:44 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard <[email protected]>: > I think it might be a good idea to make the menu only list the > languages found. But I don't think the languages menu should be > removed. I think it should either just show the "Default" entry, or > say in the menu that now language files was found. > > I am not really sure why it is considered testing, but I suspect that > Jean-Pierre or somone else knows something more about that, but I > could be wrong. > > If no one knows why this is considered testing, I would suggest that > we don't do that, because it is really usefull, and a user using non > english native language on his desktop expect that it should be > possible to change it to english. This is also very useful for bug > reporting. Maybe we should even note that in our little bug reporting > guide. > > Nick > > 2016-02-25 5:24 GMT+01:00 Simon Wells <[email protected]>: >> any comments on this? >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Simon Wells <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:26 AM >> Subject: Language List >> To: KiCad Developers <[email protected]> >> >> >> Currently the Language List throughout kicad advises it is used for testing >> only >> >> common/pgm_base.cpp:72 * The selection of languages is mainly for >> maintainer's convenience >> the tooltip for the languages option in preferences is also "only used >> for testing!" >> >> If this is the case do we really need the flags, Apart from being >> rather over the top for a testing feature flags while they can look >> pretty (yet seem to be disabled on most platforms) aren't very >> accurate as to the language, and should it be moved into #ifdef DEBUG >> >> I am currently making it so that it will only add the languages that >> are found in the paths as being able to select a language that isn't >> installed is not very useful. And the languages menu will not even be >> available if no i18n files are located >> >> If we decide to keep the flags would it not make more sense to move >> these to the i18n repo so that adding a language would not require >> effort from both programmers and translators, how my code will work is >> that it will automatically update the list with any languages that are >> detected >> >> thanks >> >> Simon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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