languages in install
Based on feedback so far, we really need the option to NOT install the language files when installing on Windows, so that Inkscape would only use English. I think this should be a pretty simple patch to the nsis installer file, to ask "Do you want to use English interface, or the language of your Windows system (if Inkscape has a translation for that language)". Added bonus if it can detect WHICH language is going to be used. Any volunteers?
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:25:46PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
Based on feedback so far, we really need the option to NOT install the language files when installing on Windows, so that Inkscape would only use English. I think this should be a pretty simple patch to the nsis installer file, to ask "Do you want to use English interface, or the language of your Windows system (if Inkscape has a translation for that language)". Added bonus if it can detect WHICH language is going to be used. Any volunteers?
It can be useful to install multiple languages if there are many users of that system with different language preference. No doubt not as common/useful on Windows systems as on Un*x systems, and maybe our NSIS hackers will decide that it's too rare a case to cater to, but the NSIS hackers might consider adding an option "All available languages" or providing a list of n checkboxes.
pjrm.
On 7/27/05, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
Based on feedback so far, we really need the option to NOT install the language files when installing on Windows, so that Inkscape would only use English. I think this should be a pretty simple patch to the nsis installer file, to ask "Do you want to use English interface, or the language of your Windows system (if Inkscape has a translation for that language)". Added bonus if it can detect WHICH language is going to be used.
Even more, it would be neat to let users choose the UI language later in Preferences (i.e. override system locale settings). E.g. there are lots of designers who try to uselocalised version, then swear at translator :) and try toswitchto English version of UI.
Alexandre
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:31:07AM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Even more, it would be neat to let users choose the UI language later in Preferences (i.e. override system locale settings). E.g. there are lots of designers who try to use localised version, then swear at translator :) and try to switch to English version of UI.
Another, independently applicable response to this problem would be to add a Help menu item "How to improve the translation", showing a transcription or translation of http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TranslationInformation (perhaps mentioning that URL at the top of the page).
pjrm.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:50:44AM +1000, Peter Moulder wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:31:07AM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Even more, it would be neat to let users choose the UI language later in Preferences (i.e. override system locale settings). E.g. there are lots of designers who try to use localised version, then swear at translator :) and try to switch to English version of UI.
Another, independently applicable response to this problem would be to add a Help menu item "How to improve the translation", showing a transcription or translation of http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TranslationInformation (perhaps mentioning that URL at the top of the page).
Agreed, or even better yet, right next to the dropdown for selecting language overrides, have some text saying something like, "If you find the translation to be bad, you can help improve it directly by..."
Bryce
On Jul 27, 2005, at 9:25 AM, bulia byak wrote:
I think this should be a pretty simple patch to the nsis installer file, to ask "Do you want to use English interface, or the language of your Windows system (if Inkscape has a translation for that language)". Added bonus if it can detect WHICH language is going to be used. Any volunteers?
One minor refinement would be for a subset, not just a single extra language.
At an MS Office presentation way back when, it was pointed out that the majority of either non-English or non-monolingual users (I forget which off hand) usually worked in two or three languages intermixed at once.
This applies more to content, but is also helpful to keep in mind for UI in regards to end-user mindset.
participants (5)
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Alexandre Prokoudine -
Bryce Harrington -
bulia byak -
Jon A. Cruz -
Peter Moulder