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

[Alexandre Neto]

Hi Harrissou,

I agree that some folks will just go with the system locale anyway, but
here, many users prefer to use the GUI in English. Some are not even aware
that for changing to English from the system locale they don't need to
reinstall QGIS. So having an option on the first lauch, would be a great
improvement in my opinion.

All the best,

Alex

DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> escreveu no dia quinta, 24/03/2022 à(s) 11:52:

> Hi,
> I'm sure I'm not a particular case: when I'm asked to select a language, I
> usually look after the one I'm the most comfortable with and select it. And
> in this case, I guess most of pt_PT people seeing their language in the
> list will still pick that language, ignoring there are issues with it.
>
> Mathieu there's already a value check: only languages with 35% are pulled
> into code base. The issue here is that pt_PT has issues with the quality of
> the translated strings.
>
> Regards,
> Harrissou
>
> Le jeu. 24 mars 2022 à 12:39, Mathieu Pellerin via QGIS-Developer <
> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
>
>> 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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