Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Can LibO be Customised to be Downloaded in a Native Language?

Þann þri  5.ágú 2014 07:19, skrifaði Rimas Kudelis:
> Hi,
>
> On 2014.08.04 23:29, Michael Bauer wrote:
> > Wow. So if you're lucky enough to be among the 107 locale for which
> > Win 8 (for those who have Win 8 of course, Win XP still has a 25%
> > market share) has a langpack or the 55 or so on Ubuntu (of course that
> > does not automatically translate into LO actually being offered in all
> > those languages as I recently had to discover with Scottish Gaelic) -
> > or the disgraceful number of locales on OSX, you're covered. Even if I
> > just add them up, that amounts to 2.7% of the world's languages being
> > covered by this approach. Anyone else has to rely on the end user
> > *guessing* that they have to run a custom install.
> >
> > I like LO but I promote it through gritted teeth because the install
> > and update process continues to be a disgrace.
> >
> > Elanjelian, the workaround we're currently using is not to use the
> > default download page but a customised page
> > (http://gd.libreoffice.org/faigh-greim-air/) where we tell users
> > BEFORE they reach the download button that they have to follow this
> > unintuitive path through Custom Installation. It would probably work
> > for your language too.
>
> perhaps a better option would be to present the user with a "please
> select your installation language" dialog as the first step of setup,
> and adjust the list of automatically selected locales based on that
> choice. Not sure if it is possible with the msi-based installer though.
>
> Rimas

+1

Sorry, but we are having this discussion every year:
<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-l10n-Localisation-gone-wild-td4042744.html>

Definitely it would be more polite starting the installer 
with a language-selection box. If you read the thread above, 
you'll see that even asking in English is no sufficent; 
shouldn't the language names be localised too? And how about 
graphical imagery for those who don't understand any English 
at all?

Also, there may be a variety of reasons why the system/user 
locale can't be the desired UI-locale.

In bugzilla for Windows Installer I could only find the 
vaguely-related "Bug 50509 - Language selection is not 
possible with silent install", there are some useful pointers.

And then there's "Bug 41884 - [Task] Windows Installer Most 
Annoying Bugs"

So, how about filing a bugzilla entry instead of repeating 
history?

Best regards,
Sveinn í Felli




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