Hiroki Sato wrote:
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> 
> Gabor Kovesdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>   in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> ga> Hiroki Sato schrieb:
> ga> > Gabor Kovesdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> ga> >   in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> ga> > ga> >
> ga> > ga> For a drop-down list similarly as mirrors are listed? I remember to 
> have
> ga> > ga> seen such screenshot somewhere and I find it a great idea.
> ga> >
> ga> >  I prefer to put the language list to the bottom of the page as a
> ga> >  content of the footer, and all pages should have it if possible (with
> ga> >  some automation).  Two drop-down lists in the page, one for language
> ga> >  and another for location is a confusing design for readers, I think.
> ga> >
> ga> >
> ga>
> ga> Well, I think it should be kept somewhere at the top. It I were a new
> ga> user and saw the website I'm pretty sure I could hardly notice the
> ga> languages at the bottom. One has to scroll down even with higher
> ga> resolution to see the bottom of the page, so one can't see the website
> ga> as a whole.
> 
>  Good point.  I was thinking a style used in www.gnu.org (a link
>  "Translations of this page" in the header and the language list in
>  the footer).  And one of the reasons why I suggest it is that I
>  really want to mark or get rid of outdated translations in some way
>  (at build time, not to remove from CVS completely, of course)---if we
>  only have a link to the translated top page only, people who usually
>  read the translated pages are likely to fail to notice newly-added
>  contents under the top page in the English version.  If we have the
>  language list in the footer, I think it would not be an eyesore even
>  if it put at the bottom of (nearly) all pages as well as we would not
>  have a trouble with overflowing the space at the page top.  So I
>  think it is better than simply making the language bar longer.  The
>  current version also has some other problems---well, is it easy to
>  understand "zh_CN" means Chinese?

Yes, it would be much better if we would be able to do that.

Cheers,
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