https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82184
--- Comment #10 from Michael Bauer <[email protected]> --- At the risk of repeating myself: it removes user control over the UI language and it only caters well for monolingual speakers of really big languages. So if you're a German-only speaker on a German OS then you're dandy. If you're a Sorbian speaker in Germany on a German OS because there is no OS in your language or because you don't have the right hardware for the langpack for your language, you have a very frustrating experience of getting LO in the language you want. That applies to a LOT of potential users. We also had the case where someone was working on a company PC which had Chinese as an OS language but he actually wanted it in English but because the installer 'assumed' wrongly, he ended up with it in Chinese and of course once you have installed LO (http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/9648/simplifying-the-setting-for-installation-language/), there is no way of *adding* a langpack via settings, you have to run the installer again and you still have to guess that you need to run Custom Install. I end up putting in twice as much time promoting LO than, for example, VLC in my locale. With VLC I just have to describe the install process and then explain how to change the UI language in Settings. With LO I have to describe a really complex dance through Custom Install and I'm forever getting phonecalls and emails saying 'I installed LO because I heard from a friend its in Gaelic but it only comes up in English'. And not a single one, after I walk them through it, goes 'oh fair enough', they ALL go 'why is it this complicated to select your language?' Other possibilities that we might contemplate: Allow download of langpack (like downloading addons from the addon site) if the user selects a language in Settings (after install) that was not installed. Run some pre-installer. I don't know how it works but sometimes when the actual installer is really big, you get to download a much smaller file which walks you through some questions before it actually downloads the installation files. Or perhaps a first-run dialogue which offers the user to set the UI language and downloads if necessary? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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