Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (396 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have this bug assigned to me about missing locales: bug 659001.
> The bug is basically that some GNOME applications have translations for 
> locales that we lack otherwise and so the GNOME packages have to handle them 
> separately.
>
> The bug itself would be easy to fix, but I wonder if it's a good idea to 
> package all locales existant or if we shouldn't limit ourselves somewhere. I 
> mean, I have no good measure where this limit should be, but I feel that it's 
> not wise to package all files in existance.
>
> Take e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinian_language (from the bug 
> report 
> it's in gnome-do and transmission). It has 1.85 Million total speakers and 5 
> dialects. It's impossible to know how many of those use computers regularly 
> and how many of those would use linux (at least one of them translated GNOME 
> though). But the main problem I see is: just having gnome-do won't help 
> anyone 
> to use the computer in the native language. So I would think that we don't 
> gain much user experience but make the installs larger for everyone.
>
> So I would suggest that we introduce a macro that removes all languages not 
> in 
> filesystems, so we can still add new languages if the cost/benefit ratio 
> exceeds a limit.
>
> What do you think?

Why not create a set of configured locales at install time and allow
users to configure additional ones if they need them?  (-> Debian)

Richard.

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Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>
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