-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-05-08 at 20:31 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
What I want is to install two languages at install time, e.g. English and German. Later on, each individual user should then be able to pick the language of his/her choice. We know it's perfectly possible to have a mostly english Linux installation, just as it is possible to have a mostly German installation. (I say mostly to account for some apps not having local language versions).
There is such an option during install. There is a window where you see the main settings for the future installation: software selection, boot configuration, etc, etc. There is a tab for expert mode or something similar, that expands the info a lot (I'm thinking of 10.1). One of the entries is language. There is a language selected, the main one, but there is also the option to select as many aditional languages as you like. This setting affect the language packs for OOo, kde, gnome... I don't know about man pages and other smaller programs: they don't have separate language rpms, just the main one with whatever translations it has.
All I need is 1) to have the option to install multiple languages at install time, without having to select everything manually and 2) for each user to be able to chose/swap between languages, for instance through setting the KDE Personal Preferences.
The first you have. I have seen it in 9.3 also. The second, you have as well, but not all programs will obey. OOo, for instance, will not, I think: it has its own configuration.
It would seem that 1) can't be overly difficult, but does require a change in YaST. 2) is there such a thing as a per-user, but system-wide language setting?
No, each user has to select his language, by setting the LANG environment var, and settings in the desktops he uses. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEX9dBtTMYHG2NR9URAt0iAJ9ppwxbGDOIbroutOBUmyOM5hLxTwCeMbOy 0h42Hic2H4GTWSrNS/xB6YQ= =va1j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----