[GCompris-devel] Hardcoded language support

[JAZEIX Johnny]

On 01/18/15 23:43, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
>
> Le 18/01/2015 14:06, JAZEIX Johnny a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> You're right, the list is harcoded and out of sync. We had a 
>> discussion about it before the release and the problem was/is how to 
>> get localized names of the languages. I looked at 
>> QLocale(locale).nativeLanguageName() which can give us them but they 
>> are not all available.
> Hi, in fact no, we had the country in this list localized but decided 
> it was not a good idea. Languages must be proposed untranslated. You 
> always know how to read the name of the language you want to select. 
> But you may not know how to read it when translated in another language.
It's "non-localized names" that I wanted to say. nativeLanguageName give 
us the name in its country language (so français for french).
>>
>> Maybe we can have a local file like the activities.txt which lists 
>> all the locales and the language name in its locale? It won't change 
>> a lot so we will be able to maintain it "easily" and not too often?
> What is important to me is to have to do this in a single location. 
> Why not just maintaining the list in DialogConfig.qml as it is. I just 
> pushed a commit to have the locale list up front in the file, it is 
> easier to maintain.
I agree with the need of only having it in one location.

Johnny
>
> Bruno.
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