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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think it might be a good idea to make the menu only list the
languages found. But I don't think the languages menu should be
removed. I think it should either just show the "Default" entry, or
say in the menu that now language files was found.

I am not really sure why it is considered testing, but I suspect that
Jean-Pierre or somone else knows something more about that, but I
could be wrong.

If no one knows why this is considered testing, I would suggest that
we don't do that, because it is really usefull, and a user using non
english native language on his desktop expect that it should be
possible to change it to english. This is also very useful for bug
reporting. Maybe we should even note that in our little bug reporting
guide.

Nick

2016-02-25 5:24 GMT+01:00 Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>:
> any comments on this?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:26 AM
> Subject: Language List
> To: KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Currently the Language List throughout kicad advises it is used for testing only
>
> common/pgm_base.cpp:72  *   The selection of languages is mainly for
> maintainer's convenience
> the tooltip for the languages option in preferences is also "only used
> for testing!"
>
> If this is the case do we really need the flags, Apart from being
> rather over the top for a testing feature flags while they can look
> pretty (yet seem to be disabled on most platforms) aren't very
> accurate as to the language, and should it be moved into #ifdef DEBUG
>
> I am currently making it so that it will only add the languages that
> are found in the paths as being able to select a language that isn't
> installed is not very useful. And the languages menu will not even be
> available if no i18n files are located
>
> If we decide to keep the flags would it not make more sense to move
> these to the i18n repo so that adding a language would not require
> effort from both programmers and translators, how my code will work is
> that it will automatically update the list with any languages that are
> detected
>
> thanks
>
> Simon
>
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