Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 20:28 +0900, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center > wrote: > >>Patryk Zawadzki wrote: >> >>>2007/10/18, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> >>>>The problem is the ability to show the limited locales only by default >>>>installation. >>>>If this feature is implemented, your case is also covered, e.g. >>>> >>>>OnlyShowInLang=zh_CN,en_CN or OnlyShowInLang=zh,en >>>> >>>>But the default value is designed in the system supportability and it also >>>>has the extention for each request. >>> >>> >>>Why? If I take my laptop to Japan it will still run in pl_PL locale >>>but my demand for software might change. I strongly believe (and >>>others seem they also do) that hiding an application from the user is >>>doing him a bad favor. >> >>The users don't have the bad favor because the system is configured >>under the default configuration and it means the users are properly >>explained how to show the specific application when they change the >>locales. > > > A) Who are the users? > > B) How is this a spec problem rather than a packaging problem? > > It seems to me that your "users" are "Sun's customers" who are located > in a specific region of Asia. These customers are not the end users, but > the "administrators" who are requesting the default configuration be a > certain way. The default should be that said application is not > installed for those locales, rather than installed, but hidden.
Yes right but they could be the end users and/or sysadmins. The problem is the region needs to install the app by default when the desktop is a locale so I think the installer cannot hide the menu item when other users install all locales. > > The way you are demanding things work would be analogous to me decided > to speak in French one day, and suddenly having all the English > literature disappear from my bookshelf when I walk up to it. I'm not sure if I understand this metaphor. I think a desktop normally has a theme and the distributors decide which menu items are installed. One region needs to show a menu item by default but the application does not work on other locales and then the special logic is needed in .desktop side. > > If it's not something that would happen in the real world, I don't see > it really making much sense in the desktop metaphor world, either. It > seems the best approach is to either solve the problem with packaging, > or system lock-down administration tools. As I noted, unfortunatelly I think this problem cannot be resolved in the installation and it's a default installation but not a post configuration so sysadmin tool does not help to resolve this. fujiwara > > -- dobey > > > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
