[Padre-dev] GUI Language selection [was Re: [Padre-commit] rev 1350 - tools trunk/lib/Padre/Wx]

[Adam Kennedy]

2008/11/27 Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com>:
> Our *traditional* strategy (I think almost 4 weeks old :-) was to
> default to the locale
> of the system and then let the user change it on the menu which will be
> saved in her preferences which should travel with the user even if
> she is using a portable perl and plugs it in in all kinds of computers
> with all kinds of locale settings.
>
> We could change the default to English if others think it to be a
> better default.

The best and most common locale scheme I've seen used is to make
"Autodetect" or "System Locale" or whatever as a specific menu choice,
usually it looks like this.

System Locale
(Menu Divider)
English
Spanish
etc
etc

... and then you make System Locale the default locale.

If the user loads up the application on their regular operating
system, everything (hopefully) just works.

If it doesn't, or once they've selected a specific language, then that
language goes into the Personal section of the configuration store, so
that it will synchronise across their installs.

If people prefer to use different languages on different computers,
none of which are in the same system locale, I have no ideas... :)

Adam K