That LyX's preferences now offer a way to set the menu language is an improvement I like, but
unfortunately it doesn't work:
- on Mac and Windows it is completely broken
- on Linux it works, but the drop down list offers languages for whose no
translation exists
So the new feature is extremely confusing and except of Linux useless. I therefore vote to remove it
until this is fixed as discussed at the developer meeting.
- We know that this feature will never work as it is on Windows, as there is a bug in libintl.dll
that is fixed for Linux but that cannot be compiled on Windows. So another method to set the menu
language is needed. We do this in the Windows installers by setting the environment variable "LANG";
this should also be done by LyX.
- Besides this, we need to add a list like the languages file where we store the languages that have
translations of LyX's menus. The current state that LyX offers every language is not acceptable.
Opinions?
regards Uwe
