[QGIS-Developer] Override System Locale user interface with American English by Default?

[Alexandre Neto]

Following Alessandro advice, we could have a choice menu on the first QGIS
launch, that would allow the user to select the GUI language. Maybe we
could keep the system locale as default, but inform that the translation
work may not be 100% accurate as it is done by volunteer work. We could add
a link to transifex so the user can see the translation stats and even
invite them to join the effort for better translations.

My main problem is not the translation percentage, but its quality. At
least in PT_pt, some folks just translate strings without caring about the
context of the string, which ends up in very strange and nonsense.

Thanks for your opinions

Alex

Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com> escreveu no dia quinta, 24/03/2022
à(s) 11:39:

> Could we not have some means to attach a quality value to each language
> (eg at the very least % translated), and only force English on poorly
> translated languages? I feel forcing English by default would be a
> disservice to the part of the community that spends hours to translate QGIS.
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 18:32 Alexandre Neto via QGIS-Developer <
> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alessandro,
>>
>> Well, the option on first launch would be a much bettter solution. But
>> probably more complicated. Any idea of how much man/hours would be needed
>> to implement it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> A quinta, 24/03/2022, 11:21, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
>> escreveu:
>>
>>> Hi Alexandre,
>>>
>>> it seems reasonable to me but I'd suggest adding a first-time notice and
>>> an option for the user to actually set the system locale, maybe only for
>>> the first QGIS launch.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 12:12 PM Alexandre Neto via QGIS-Developer <
>>> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have raised this before, but I wanted to ask for it again. Currently,
>>>> QGIS default is not to Override System Locale and use the system's locale
>>>> for User interface.
>>>>
>>>> If the system locale language happens to have good and reliable
>>>> translations, this works well, but when the language is incomplete or
>>>> poorly translated, this IMHO poses a problem.
>>>>
>>>> The European Portuguese translation is quite poor, with many errors and
>>>> bad translations. In the end it is sometimes hard to work with the GUI in
>>>> PT_pt. To me the bad thing is it looks bad on the project reputation and
>>>> people (users) read it as a symptom of bad quality software, which is not
>>>> the case.
>>>>
>>>> So, I wanted to suggest if we could have American english as the
>>>> default for the GUI? Would this  be reasonable?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Alexandre Neto
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