Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 17:55 +0900, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center > wrote: > > >>Some of the applications are used on one locale only, e.g. Chinese >>dictionary application, Japan road map application. >>The situlation is, those applications are used for one country only, >>the native persons require to show the application by default, the >>native person usually uses one locale only. >>But we don't have suitable applications for all locales so >>the .desktop needs to be shown on one locale only. > > > No app should ever show for only one locale. I have friends that live > all over the world. I would want to see a map application, or > dictionary, no matter what. If the application does not have sufficient
Even if you want a map application for all regions, the application works on one region and one locale only. It's a problem the limited application is shown on other locales by defalt. It assures the application works on desktop on a locale but don't support the application is launched on other locales. technically users can modify .desktop but actual modifications are done under a support. I think showing a desktop item causes several senses; visibility, introduction of the major applications, desktop theme. If one locale wants to show a desktop to add the application into the major applications, the case would not be a simple integration for other locales. > translation to other languages, that is a problem with the application, > not the user, the user's environment, the XDG specs, or anything else. > If your problem is you lack translations, then you should make the > translation department at Sun fix it, not the XDG Desktop File spec. Translation is one of the problem but not all. Adding translations causes a cost and it's out of the engineering issue. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
