(You could also acheive similar behavior by offering a "move to top" button, either in addition to or instead of the "up"/"down" buttons. With this approach, clicking anywhere on the language entry could trigger the action, rather than needing a smaller button.)
- Eben On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Very interesting, I guess we should integrate it in the language > > section of the control panel. AFAIK, this is not being considered yet. > > > > If we don't want to add more complexity to the control panel UI, we > > may assign under the hoods a fallback language to every language? > > The best way to provide this support in the UI is to present the > available languages in a list (as opposed to, for instance, a popup), > which allows drag and drop reordering. In this manner, the user may > simply sort their preferred list of languages to to the top, in any > order they wish. For accessibility (and just to make it all around > easier for those that have trouble dragging), it would be wise to add > "up" and "down" buttons to each language entry, so that the reordering > can be accomplished with clicks instead. > > Alternately, you could provide both "preferred language" and > "secondary language" popups, which is slightly less flexible, but I'm > unsure how many people would really want more than one level of > fallback, or two at the most. > > - Eben > > > > > Perhaps someone from deployment could comment on the better milestone > > to target this? > > > > Tomeu > > > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Interesting, thanks. Are there any plans to make use of this feature > > > in deployments? > > > > > > - Bert - > > > > > > > > > On 05.04.2008, at 12:05, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > > Yes, by setting LANGUAGE env variable with a fall back language, > > > > some thing > > > > like "LANGUAGE=ur_PK:fa_IR:ar", you can specify multiple fall back > > > > languages. > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:31:30AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > > >> ... which reminds me: Is it possible in gettext to fall back on a > > > >> language other than English when a translation for some phrase > cannot > > > >> be found? That would be a useful feature I think, as long as there > > > >> are > > > >> programs that are not fully translated (which will happen very > > > >> often). > > > >> > > > >> - Bert - > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Localization mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
