Hi, On 2014.08.04 23:29, Michael Bauer wrote: > Wow. So if you're lucky enough to be among the 107 locale for which > Win 8 (for those who have Win 8 of course, Win XP still has a 25% > market share) has a langpack or the 55 or so on Ubuntu (of course that > does not automatically translate into LO actually being offered in all > those languages as I recently had to discover with Scottish Gaelic) - > or the disgraceful number of locales on OSX, you're covered. Even if I > just add them up, that amounts to 2.7% of the world's languages being > covered by this approach. Anyone else has to rely on the end user > *guessing* that they have to run a custom install. > > I like LO but I promote it through gritted teeth because the install > and update process continues to be a disgrace. > > Elanjelian, the workaround we're currently using is not to use the > default download page but a customised page > (http://gd.libreoffice.org/faigh-greim-air/) where we tell users > BEFORE they reach the download button that they have to follow this > unintuitive path through Custom Installation. It would probably work > for your language too.
perhaps a better option would be to present the user with a "please select your installation language" dialog as the first step of setup, and adjust the list of automatically selected locales based on that choice. Not sure if it is possible with the msi-based installer though. Rimas -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
