Falkon 24.08.1: How do I change the language in the GUI of Falkon?

[Jens]

Hi Juraj,

Thanks for your information.

Yes, setting the $LANG environment variable to another language than the 
system locale with the command

$ export LANG=<different language definition>

before you start Falkon from within the same console changes the system/
default language of the GUI elements displayed in Falkon to that different 
language, as I noticed.

But there is another way to permanently set Falkon to another language as the 
default language for displaying the GUI elements in Falkon by doing the 
following:

Edit the Falkon menu entry in the KDE Start menu by inserting f. e. 
"LANG=en_US.UTF-8" or "LANG=de_DE.UTF-8" (without quotation marks) into the 
field "Environment variables".

I checked this in my KDE Plasma 6 installation which by default is set to 
"German" in the "Region and  Language" settings in the KDE System Settings.

But having applied this configuration it appears that the elements of the 
Falkon GUI are only displayed in another language (in my case: in English) if 
I click the KDE Start button > Internet menu entry > Falkon menu entry.

If I click the Falkon icon within the KDE task bar (the Falkon icon there is a 
link to the Falkon menu entry within the KDE start menu), then the elements 
within the Falkon GUI are not displayed in German, but in German. I was not 
able to correct this behavior because it seems to be impossible to edit the 
settings of the Falkon icon in the KDE task bar, at least in my Tuxedo OS 3 
installation.

Maybe this information about how to change the default/system language for the 
elements in the Falkon GUI could be worth to get documented at

https://userbase.kde.org/Falkon

Best regards,

Jens


Am Mittwoch, 18. September 2024, 22:34:01 CEST schrieb Juraj Oravec:
> > Hi Juraj,
> 
> Hello Jens,
> 
> > In the latest Falkon version 24.08.1, which I compiled from its source
> > code, I am not anymore able to switch the current GUI language set to
> > German (i.e. buttons, menus a.s.o are all in German) back to English.
> > 
> > At least not within the GUI of Falkon. I also checked that Falkon
> > *.ini file in my $HOME directory, but I could not detect in it any
> > switch which should change the GUI language back to English.
> > 
> > But as far I can remember, the first GUI language directly after I had
> > compiled Falkon in version 24.08.1 was English.
> > 
> > What I did after that was that I converted two Hunspell dictionaries
> > for German and English into that *.bdic format and put the generated
> > *.bdic files into a certain subdirectory below the Falkon program
> > directory - with the result that in Falkon, Edit menu > Preferences >
> > Spell Checking (or something like that) both German and English are
> > shown as activated for spell checking. And spell checking works for
> > both English and German, I checked that on the Internet.
> > 
> > Do you know how to change the GUI language in Falkon from German back
> > to English or any other language? Or is this a feature which is
> > currently missing in Falkon?
> 
> Falkon follows system settings to set the GUI language (actualy, this
> should be done by Qt). The translations are due to KDE policy already
> present in the repository, so by compiling and installing it properly
> you should have all translations available.
> 
> I can start Falkon (compiled from source) in German by setting
> environment variable LANG to "de_DE.UTF-8" or for English "en_US.UTF-8"
> 
> > export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> And than I run Falkon from the same terminal, works fine. If you have
> another instance of falkon running remember to use "-r" option to start
> a new instance.
> 
> > falkon -r -p testing_profile
> 
> In case you need to also change the locale (date and number formats)
> consult some wiki page of your distribution (I often go to Archwiki for
> general info).
> 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Jens
> 
> Best regards,
> Juraj