Le jeudi 21 juillet 2005 à 22:23 +0700, Ross Golder a écrit : > I now use GNOME from day-to-day in my secondary language (Thai). I've > found it has helped me practice reading/typing Thaiscript (a non-Roman > alphabet) and is improving my Thai vocabulary. However, from > time-to-time I come across a translated error message (in Thai) that I > don't understand (yet!). Wouldn't it be great if I could switch the > displayed language of all the GNOME applications on the screen with a > language switcher applet, as easily as you can switch the keyboard > layout between US and Thai (and British when I need a pound sign!). Not > only would it let me get on quicker, but it would also help me improve > my language skills, as I could spend a moment each time I get stuck > flicking between the two languages and learn the words and the meaning > of the phrases without having to resort to the dictionary :) > > I can think of tons of cases where this feature would be useful and it > would be yet another cool feature that all the other desktops don't have > (yet, afaik). So, I'm just wondering if it can be done and what would be > involved.
I can comment another case. In my desktop on my job I use French, as the same plan as you (my native language is Spanish). However, when I run synaptic (the software to update/upgrade my Debian/Ubuntu machine), but when I need to answer a dialog, I'd like to see the dialog in English (because I could break my machine if I misundertood a dialog). > Has this kind of thing been discussed before somewhere/sometime? If so, > where? How feasible is it? What mechanisms would need to be put in place > for it to work? Can a program be made to change its LANG, regather it's > translations and relabel all it's widgets on the fly easily enough? > Could it work in a similar way to how changing the GTK+ theme notifies > all the running GNOME apps? In previous versions of GNOME it was possible to run a application (o create a launcher) as "LANG=es_US fo". However it was disabled around 2.2 o 2.0 (I guess to avoid any security issue as LD_PRELOAD or so). -- Germán Poó Caamaño http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/ _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
