Heather McSharry wrote:
>
> There has been a lot of controversy where to put the language selection
> in Mozilla. It was suggested that when you create a new profile you have
> the option to select the language and region you want. The problem I see
> is that only the en-US language-region pack is available unless you
> start Mozilla with the default profile, and take your time to download
> the langpack you're interested in.
Why can Mozilla distributors not produce builds with a different default
langpack? This is what Netscape does with Netscape 6.
> Without that, the profile option is useless. You don't want either to
> ship different langpacks with Mozilla, because size does matter. Once
> the UI is freezed, I think most of the langpacks will work with a newer
> version of Mozilla, even if the langpack doesn't correspond to the
> latest milestone, should be compatible. Another thing interesting would
> be an option to unistall a langpack under preferences.
_Any_ difference between the langpack and the Mozilla version will
probably break something. And, from other discussions, it appears that we
will only have a very short total UI freeze. Unless someone starts arguing
with me, at any rate :-)
Gerv
