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

Thu Mar 24 06:31:59 PDT 2022

I think a setting somewhere to allow an override in a corporate environment would be nice. In case QGIS is installed in a corporate environment some policy might want the UI to always be a specific language (even though the user might change it later anyway).

/Casper

From: QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Mathieu Pellerin via QGIS-Developer
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To: Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Override System Locale user interface with American English by Default?

Quality translation is an issue indeed. But if we lower exposure to these translations, we'll likely decrease the chance of those being improved in the future.

+1 to the first launch proposal with link to invite ppl to help improve things.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 18:48 Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com<mailto:senhor.neto at gmail.com>> wrote:
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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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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