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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

And BTW, we have all accepted that flags for languages are bad.

2016-02-25 7:44 GMT+01:00 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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