Re: User interface language preference

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Joost Verburg wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: FYI, I implemented just that before 1.5.0 and part of the code is still there commented out. Unfortunately, it was rejected then for the very same reason as now. I too think this option would be useful. One use case I can thin

Re: User interface language preference

2008-03-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Joost Verburg wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: FYI, I implemented just that before 1.5.0 and part of the code is still there commented out. Unfortunately, it was rejected then for the very same reason as now. I too think this option would be useful. One use case I can think of besides the other

Re: User interface language preference

2008-03-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Joost Verburg wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: FYI, I implemented just that before 1.5.0 and part of the code is still there commented out. Unfortunately, it was rejected then for the very same reason as now. I too think this option would be useful. One use case I can think of besides the other

Re: User interface language preference

2008-02-21 Thread Joost Verburg
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: FYI, I implemented just that before 1.5.0 and part of the code is still there commented out. Unfortunately, it was rejected then for the very same reason as now. I too think this option would be useful. One use case I can think of besides the other you already cited:

Re: User interface language preference

2008-02-04 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Joost Verburg wrote: Hi, Would it be possible to add an option to the preferences to set the user interface language? The default would of course be to rely on the environment variable, but it will allow the user to change the language much more easily. FYI, I implemented just that before 1

Re: User interface language preference

2008-01-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Andre Poenitz wrote: It isn't common to change the language of the user interface easily, either. It may not be common, but why not make it easy? Of course this is clumsy, writing a two-line batch script setting the environment and starting LyX is far easier (one could even have desktop short

Re: User interface language preference

2008-01-31 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:21:53AM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote: > Hi, > > Would it be possible to add an option to the preferences to set the > user interface language? The default would of course be to rely on the > environment variable, but it will allow the user to change the > language much more

Re: User interface language preference

2008-01-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I meant applications that support several languages after >> installation. Yes, I understand that (although the installer could decide not to install all po files (how big is the total?)) > Right. But LyX includes all the languages anyway, so why not

Re: User interface language preference

2008-01-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: To be fair, it is not common either to have programs where one can change language at run time. I don't mean that the language should change immediately. If a restart is required that's no problem. I meant applications that support several languages after installati

Re: User interface language preference

2008-01-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> To be fair, it is not common either to have programs where one can >> change language at run time. > > I don't mean that the language should change immediately. If a restart > is required that's no problem. I meant applica

Re: User interface language preference

2008-01-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: To be fair, it is not common either to have programs where one can change language at run time. I don't mean that the language should change immediately. If a restart is required that's no problem. Joost

Re: User interface language preference

2008-01-31 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Windows it is not common at all to set environment variables for > such a thing. To be fair, it is not common either to have programs where one can change language at run time. JMarc

Re: User interface language preference

2008-01-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: But also on Linux I think most people would prefer to have to ability to change the language per application instead of changing a system-wide environment variable. in linux you have this per-application ability, simply by eg "LANG=cs_CZ lyx" Yes, but it requires you to mo

Re: User interface language preference

2008-01-30 Thread Pavel Sanda
> But also on Linux I think most people would prefer to have to ability to > change the language per application instead of changing a system-wide > environment variable. in linux you have this per-application ability, simply by eg "LANG=cs_CZ lyx" pavel