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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: kcmlocale (fwd)
From:       Eric E <whalesuit () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-09-05 21:53:52
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Howdy,

	I got this mail on the kde-usability list, and it's timely, because I've 
been fooling around try to get i18n to work in KDE 2.2.  As I'm using a US 
English version of Mandrake 8.0, I haven't set any LANG or LOCALE variables, 
so adding additional languages only seems to take effect in KHelpCenter.
Anything you guys to do make this more transparent is much appreciated.

While I'm at it, I'll hit you with a question:  Presently I'm wrestling with 
the fact that KDM 2.2 doesn't use xdm scripts, so things like .Xmodmap, which 
appeared in startkde under mdk are no longer sourced.  Where do you source 
these things?

Cheers,

Eric


On Friday 17 August 2001 04:29 am, Hans Petter Bieker wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm the maintainer of the Country & Language configuration module in KDE.
> Thomas Diehl and I have discussed how this module should look, and we
> would love to hear what you think.
>
> Please check of the current version in HEAD.
>
> At the moment we're consentrating on the main page, and how to select
> secondary languages. I guess most users doesn't know the concept of
> secondary languages (if the first one isn't found, let's try the second),
> so it has to be explained somehow.
>
> My implementation is the one in HEAD. Thomas' version is described
> below.
>
> The problem with my version is that it's hard to reorder languages. I was
> thinking about adding a UP and down button, but I'm not sure if that will
> help.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:53:11 +0200
> From: Thomas Diehl <thd@kde.org>
> To: Hans Petter Bieker <bieker@stud.ntnu.no>
> Cc: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
> Subject: Re: kcmlocale
>
> Am Freitag, 17. August 2001 11:08 schrieb Hans Petter Bieker:
> > Please send patches.
>
> Can't create patches. As you know I'm not a programmer.
>
> > So why did you send me the old .ui file if you didn't want it that
> > way? ;-) Send me a new one then..
>
> What I sent was just meant as an example how the thing could look after
> adding 2 more languages. The rest was explained in the comments:
>
> * By default it could look very similar like the 2.x dialog, execpt
> that the language combo would be the last one in the list (changing
> places with encoding).
>
> *  Below the default language combo box there would be a "Add Language"
> button. (Maybe also a "Remove Language" button (greyed out until there
> was an additional language installed), see below.)
>
> *  After clicking on "Add Language" a dialog would appear that shows
> all installed languages and tells the user what will happen if (s)he
> installs one of them ("If there's no primary language the secondary one
> will be used, if neither one is there the third one etc.")
>
> *  After selecting and clicking OK a new combo box appears below the
> "Add Language / Remove Language" which shows the secondary language.
>
> *  This procedure can be repeated until there are X languages (3? 5?
> infinite?). The user can change the priority of languages by just
> selecting another one in the combo boxes.
>
> Only remaining question would be: How to organize the "Remove Language"
> thing if there is more than one additional language. Since I presume
> combo boxes can not be selected like list entries there should either
> be an extra "Remove" button aside of each new language combo or there
> would have to be another dialog that asks which of the additional
> languages should be removed. The first option is probably better.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
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