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

[Aurelio Pires]

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

Regards,

APires


On 2022-03-24 12:10, Mathieu Pellerin via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> I'm aware of the 35% pull threshold. I was suggesting we could raise 
> the bar to eg 80% for that language to be set as default on first 
> launch :)
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 18:52 DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     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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