* Betr.: " [tryton-dev] Improvement in language management" (Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:21:30 +0200):
Hi,
> We got some discuss about possible improvement in the language management.
> Here are the issue and possible solution:
>
> - The date format (and number format) is linked to the language. But sometimes
> users would prefer an other one. Per example if you are a french guy and you
> must work with Tryton in English (corporate policy), you will find annoying
> to use the english date format.
>
> Allow to define a custom date format (and number format) on user
> preferences
> (in the client interface) and use it for the client display.
> Reports or any things else will still use the default date format defined on
> the language.
If it is corporate policy to work in foreign language, date and number format
belong to it. It could even be corporate policy to not *allow* the user to
change any display format.
I am in doubt, whether this feature is of any use. If I take into account, how
difficult it is and was to get other customization features into the client I
am wondering that you even think about this feature.
> - You could have activated many languages in Tryton because you have a lot of
> different users languages. But per example the company doesn't want to
> maintain a translation for all languages of the product name (or any other
> translatable fields).
>
> Allow to define on the languages a list of fields to exclude of the
> translation. This will be taken by the client and it will not propose to
> translate the field for these languages.
> The current default behavior will be keep in case of reading a record with a
> language that is not translated which is to give the english version.
Do I miss something in saying, that a company could remove the translate
attribute from a field, if it doesn't want to be the field translatable?
But it could be indeed an interesting feature, if it would also work the other
way: Define fields to be translatable in the client. This way the translatable
attribute just would be default, that could be entirely customized.
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Mathias Behrle
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