[bt-devel] retranslateUi

[Jaak Ristioja]

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On 27.01.2010 13:57, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
> Does "one might want to change" mean that we know some people really
> want to do it, or just that we feel it's a possible scenario? A
> possibility isn't enough to warrant a change in every class.
I've been in such a scenario a number of times. Mainly because the translation was so bad,
I wanted to change it to English. Other times I needed to change the language for the
whole application at runtime because I either wanted to see whether the Estonian
translation is usable or the application did not for some reason start up using the
correct language. Messing with environment variables is not comfortable, especially on
Windows. Using environment variables is not an option in many other cases, e.g. when
installing BibleTime on many machines like done in enterprise environments.

Most importantly - the average computer user has no idea what environment variables are.
We know, but to the average Joe its nuclear science.

> OK, but are the users happy because they can do it on-the-fly instead of
> restarting the app? Still I'm not convinced. I would be quite happy if I
> could change the language and then restart the app. Even that would be
> luxury compared with most applications. "Quite a lot" is subjective - I
> don't remember any app having the possibility to change the UI language
> from the GUI, let alone on-the-fly. Is it more than 5% or more than
> 50%? If more than 50%, it would be quite compelling to implement the
> feature just for the sake of being feature complete.
I'm certain that implementing on-the-fly translation will keep users happier than
translation on restart. Restarting the application to change the translation will require
more (effort + time) from the end-users.

Yes, of course "quite a lot" is subjective, but I don't think we should start to count and
calculate these percentages.

Jaak
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