Could we not have some means to attach a quality value to each language (eg at the very least % translated), and only force English on poorly translated languages? I feel forcing English by default would be a disservice to the part of the community that spends hours to translate QGIS.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 18:32 Alexandre Neto via QGIS-Developer < qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hi Alessandro, > > Well, the option on first launch would be a much bettter solution. But > probably more complicated. Any idea of how much man/hours would be needed > to implement it? > > Thanks, > > Alex > > A quinta, 24/03/2022, 11:21, Alessandro Pasotti <apaso...@gmail.com> > escreveu: > >> Hi Alexandre, >> >> it seems reasonable to me but I'd suggest adding a first-time notice and >> an option for the user to actually set the system locale, maybe only for >> the first QGIS launch. >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 12:12 PM Alexandre Neto via QGIS-Developer < >> qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have raised this before, but I wanted to ask for it again. Currently, >>> QGIS default is not to Override System Locale and use the system's locale >>> for User interface. >>> >>> If the system locale language happens to have good and reliable >>> translations, this works well, but when the language is incomplete or >>> poorly translated, this IMHO poses a problem. >>> >>> The European Portuguese translation is quite poor, with many errors and >>> bad translations. In the end it is sometimes hard to work with the GUI in >>> PT_pt. To me the bad thing is it looks bad on the project reputation and >>> people (users) read it as a symptom of bad quality software, which is not >>> the case. >>> >>> So, I wanted to suggest if we could have American english as the default >>> for the GUI? Would this be reasonable? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Alexandre Neto >>> _______________________________________________ >>> QGIS-Developer mailing list >>> QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org >>> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>> >> >> >> -- >> Alessandro Pasotti >> QCooperative: www.qcooperative.net >> ItOpen: www.itopen.it >> > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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