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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KDE Help Center
From:       Gérard Delafond <gerard () delafond ! org>
Date:       2003-10-18 20:20:40
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Le Samedi 18 Octobre 2003 20:35, Luciano Montanaro a écrit :

> > > I remind my wishes :
> > > -to have a button to call english help when you are using another
> > > language (to get a more up to date version, or in case of doubt of a
> > > translation bug) -to have a warning about translations (same reason)
> >
If you like english help to be displayed, you should vote for my wish :
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62924

> > While i think this functionality sounds nice, debug wise, i don't think
> > this is suitable for end users. Not everyone got english as their second,
> > or even third, language, so making the assumption that they want easy
> > access to the english version is IMO rather silly. Maybe said feature
> > could be a (hidden) config feature, that you need to add to your
> > khelpcenterrc file (or whatever it is called)
>
> I would like to have access to the ORIGINAL documentation, which happens to
> be in english.
>
> It happens that the translated documentation can be a bit outdated,
> especially in countries where the translation team is not very big, and
> tends to concentrate on the interface translation. If no translated
> documentation is found, the english document is shown anyway.
>
> In any case, the user can set up a prioritized list of known languages in
> the control center. I think the help center only respects the first one...
> It should at least try to find documents in any of the languages specified
> by the user.
>
> I propose that the Help center should search the documentation according to
> the locale priority, and for it to have some way to switch from any of the
> languages the user has familiarity with.
>
> Maybe this is too late to do for 3.2, but I think it should be added sooner
> or later. The feature is probably usefulf for "advanced" users, or
> translators, like me, so it's okay if it is available only through some
> not-too-prominent menu entry.
>
> Luciano
>
Gerard

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