On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 05:02:50PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:18:46PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
> wrote:
> > From my point of view, languagechooser should base its ordering in a very
> > simple metric
>
> Alphabetic on eighter the locale or the official language name for
> default debian.
Sounds OK (but what is eighter?).
> If debian is rebranded and possible localized, it makes sense for them to
> reorder those. In that case the package could support this. But it is no
> requirement for the stock distribution.
>
> > So, in the event of the debian-installer being available fully-translated
> > in the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese
> > and Japanese, the order would be: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese,
> > German, French.
>
> It is a good idea to list for the installer only the languages which
> are available. In that case they fix on one screen.
>
> Personally I hate it if lists are not sorted in an easy to scan way.
> Ordering items in a most-preferred way only works if it is a short list of
> items, separated by the rest (which needs to be sorted alphabetically)
Please do not forget default "C" environment is (basically) English.
Others are all optional feature.
> And this will not increase the combined "scan time" from all users, because
> you can much easier go down a list of entries where you know you can skip
> hundreds (by first letter) compared to a list which you have to go down and
> match entry by entry.
Realistic solution of situation shall be follows:
1. The list order shall be easily configurable to address localized
distribution with following type of information.
* Priority order list
* Local limitation list
2. Debian (official) should ship language chooser with:
* Priority order list: C
List C (en_US) as top and the rest alphabetically listed
* Local limitation list: none
All available locale listed.
3. Localized Debian distribution may choose as follows:
ASIA:
* Priority order list: C, zh_CN, zh_TW
* Local limitation list: C, zh_CN, zh_TW, ko_KR, ja_JP, fr_FR
AMERICA:
* Priority order list: C, en_US, fr_FR, es_MX, pt_BR
* Local limitation list: none
...
Just a thoughts...
