On Wednesday 01 June 2005 09:28, elefino wrote:
On this computer (SuSE 9.2 Pro, KDE 3.4), on my wife's KDE session, there's a Canadian flag or an American flag on the panel. This lets her toggle between US English and French Canadian when she's using K-Mail or OpenOffice.
I don't remember how I set this up.
When I open
KDE Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Country/Region & Language > Locale
I get one language listed ... US English. The dropdown list beside it has a choice of other languages including.... well, just US English. No choices... even though she clearly has Canadian French available to her (with the accents in all the right places, etc.)
Of course it is there! Just go one line lower, under "Country/Region & Language", and you see "Keyboard Layout". Click on "Enable keyboard layouts", and choose your keyboards. To repeat, go to : KDE Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard Layout Choose all the little flags you want there.
If I change the country/locale above the language box, the availability of languages becomes.... well dammit, it still says just US English.
So, I guess KDE Control Center is not where this is set? (One wonders what the heck it IS for, then.)
As said, it is there, and where it should logically be, under keyboards. You do not need these little flags to switch anything to be able to read in K-Mail or OpenOffice etc. any language, thanks to the good unicode support in Linux and KDE. But when you write = type on your keyboard, due to the limited number of the keys, you need to switch keyboards for different languages. Therefore all you do is to switch your keyboard layout. And that logically and correctly you do under "Keyboard Layout". HTH, Matt
I'd like to set up the same options for her on our other computer (so she'll stop using mine all the time for her business correspondence...), but how? It was probably set up several versions of KDE ago, and maybe even several versions of SuSE ago (depends where the settings are kept - I retain only the /home directory when I install newer SuSE versions).
Apparently, the KDE Control Center... etc. route has nothing at all to do with the language settings/preferences. Where else do they hide it?
Thanks
Kevin (not quite bi-lingual, apparently)