[Owncloud] howto exclude translation, order of entries in localisation menu

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 05.09.2013, at 04:45, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <hey at jancborchardt.net> wrote:

> And next to what Christian mentions, I think we should actually get rid of the German informal translation. Mostly we try to avoid using Du/Sie altogether, and the cases where we need it do not really warrant maintaining a whole different translation. Including all the confusion which is which.
> 
> Frank, Thomas, what do you think?

Agreed.


Frank



> On Sep 5, 2013 10:18 AM, "Christian Reiner" <foss at christian-reiner.info> wrote:
> Hello Stefan, hello all,
> 
> On Thursday 05 September 2013 09:17:19 Stefan Vollmar wrote:
> > it is desirable (for many reasons) to have localisations of user interfaces
> > for as many languages as possible. However, OwnCloud ships with two German
> > versions, one of them quite informal. As our installation is for "official"
> > purposes only, the more formal version is the right choice. We already had
> > a case where somebody (unintentionally) selected the informal setting, then
> > shared a file by link - this could be potentially awkward: you do not see
> > the mail template which is sent to the recipient (and it is not suitable
> > for our purposes).
> 
> actually in my eyes this shows up a more general problem. Your approach to
> solve your issue at hand by disabling a certain localization is the wrong one
> and steps short in my eyes:
> 
> The templates chosen for outgoing messages should not depend on the session
> language chosen by the user at all! Those are two completely separate things!
> Imagine a foreign member of your company, say a russian speaking colleague. He
> intuitively would use the russian localization of owncloud if available. And
> this certainly totally makes sense, since this is what localizations are there
> for. But most likely you do not want outgoing messages to your customers to be
> in russian language, just because the user initiating the message uses a
> russian localization!
> It is a very typical pattern in software suites that localizations of the user
> session and of persistent content being generated must be independent. This is
> currently not the case, apparently.
> So in my eyes the correct solution to your problem would be to decouple these
> localization use cases instead of disabling a random localization set.
> 
> Christian Reiner (arkascha)
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