[PATCH] RFC: Changing the language of individual KDE programs

[Andriy Rysin]

2007/3/8, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
>
> Andriy Rysin wrote:
> >Could somebody tell me if it really makes sense to have more than one
> >fallback language?
> >I just can't imagine nice usability if you have more than two languages
> > for the same application, in my opinion it's overdesigning and
> > confusing and for a note I am not just bilingual :) Like that spagetty
> > of Russian, Zulu, Spanish and English for me hard to believe will be
> > somehow better than simple Ru/En or Zu/En or Sp/En, it won't be even
> > readable unless you have one of language present and others pretty much
> > empty.
> >
> >The only use I can think of is dialects, e.g. if you'd preferred North
> >English, if missing then West English then East and then West (just an
> >example). But how real is this?
>
> It might be useful in a few cases, like Low German/Low Saxon → German →
> English and Norwegian Nynorsk → Norwegian Bokmål → English.
>
That's what I expected, then I would suggest to have this:
1) One main language
2) One fallback language
3) default language if 1and 2 fail is always English

Thus we'd have only two controls: primary language and fallback (optional).

Andriy
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