On 2011-03-31 16:01, Phil Bull wrote: > More information on i18n (from a non-technical user's perspective) > is needed in the system docs,
Well, I'm contributing with a suggested link to "Language Support Help" from "Customizing Your Computer" (config-desktop), assuming that the latter document will be used also in Natty. ;-) See merge proposal. Also assuming that the link, if approved, will make it in some way to the Natty version of https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/config-desktop/C/index.html > The upstream GNOME desktop help is currently undergoing a massive > overhaul, and I'm not sure we have enough suitable i18n material in > there at the moment. Would you like to have a look at it and let me > know what you think? You can see a recent build (work in progress) > here : http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/unstable/ The only document I find is "yelp ghelp:gnome-help#session-language" or http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/unstable/session-language.html I for one don't like the sentence: "The easiest way to add support for different languages is at the time of installing your system." With my Ubuntu glasses on, I suggest that it's patched in Ubuntu to be replaced with something along these lines: - You can add support for different languages either at the time of installing your system, or within a session using the <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:language-selector#support-tool"><application>Language Support</application> tool</ulink>. (That link syntax doesn't work in gnome-help in Natty, but you get the idea.) Otherwise, even if GDM in Ubuntu has undergone some significant i18n changes, the text would work for us. Also without my Ubuntu glasses, the above sentence isn't very smart IMO. I mean, how many users will read it before installing? And letting them know afterwards that the easiest way to do something would have been at installation can't reasonably serve any purpuse but annoying them... Let's return to your saying that you're "not sure [you] have enough suitable i18n material in there at the moment". Let me ask: Does GNOME provide any i18n software besides what's in GDM? If not, I don't really see what else should be said in the upstream gnome-help. If I understand it correctly, the various distributions deal with i18n in different ways, and if that's true, the i18n user help should be distribution specific, shouldn't it? I agree with Martin that the document I propose for language-selector wouldn't fit in gnome-help, even if we leave its level of detail aside. HTH Gunnar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742857 Title: i18n matters ought to be properly documented -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
