Sgrìobh [email protected] na leanas 28/11/2014
aig 11:59:
Most users prefer that you can set the display language once and that
it's effective all over the desktop.
Really? Care to quote your source on these figures? I think (on both
sides of the argument) we make assumptions about user behaviour without
bothering to ever ask the user. This is very much reminiscent of
councillors in Scotland arguing that bilingual road signs put off
tourists when *actual* research with tourists show that they like them
because it adds to the 'sense of place'.
Doing it per app instead is an idea
that would be hard to sell.
Again, really? This has been a common feature for many years. Take
Firefox, you pick a locale, you download it. VLC - picks the OS locale
but allows you to change. Virtually all programs that had different
languages on offer that I grew up with allowed you somehow to change the
UI language if you didn't want it for some reason. This force-locale
nonsense has only come in in the last decade or so. To anyone whose
preferred language is not one of the big 20, the hard sell is that they
*cannot* pick their own choice. And just because the big 20 account for
a large percentage of official state languages, that does not make them
the preferred language of the majority of people.
As always there are workarounds, though. While I usually have Swedish as
the selected display language in Language Support, I prefer English in
Thunderbird and gnome-terminal. It's accomplished with these two files:
$ cat ~/bin/thunderbird
#!/bin/sh
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
exec /usr/bin/thunderbird $@
$ cat ~/bin/gnome-terminal
#!/bin/sh
export LANGUAGE=en_US
exec /usr/bin/gnome-terminal $@
Sweet. You know, this kind of solution is largely the reason why
anything Linux based is hard to sell to the 'majority'.
Michael
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