Hello, to first of all, thank you for your great work. I have been using Geany on Linux for a long time. Now I have bought a Mac and would like to continue using Geany. After the installation Geany is in English, can I switch it to German?
greetings Gregor
Hi Gragor,
yes, it is possible. I made this "configurable" through the launcher script on OS X and it checks for the presence of the following file:
~/.config/geany/use_locale
If present, it uses localized strings. So simply running
touch ~/.config/geany/use_locale
will enable this for you.
Cheers,
Jiri
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Gregor geany@taluva.de wrote:
Hello, to first of all, thank you for your great work. I have been using Geany on Linux for a long time. Now I have bought a Mac and would like to continue using Geany. After the installation Geany is in English, can I switch it to German?
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Hello,
shouldn't this work by default? On other systems, Geany is localized by default.
Best regards, Thomas
Am 20.12.2017 um 11:52 schrieb Jiří Techet:
Hi Gragor,
yes, it is possible. I made this "configurable" through the launcher script on OS X and it checks for the presence of the following file:
~/.config/geany/use_locale
If present, it uses localized strings. So simply running
touch ~/.config/geany/use_locale
will enable this for you.
Cheers,
Jiri
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Gregor <geany@taluva.de mailto:geany@taluva.de> wrote:
Hello, to first of all, thank you for your great work. I have been using Geany on Linux for a long time. Now I have bought a Mac and would like to continue using Geany. After the installation Geany is in English, can I switch it to German? greetings Gregor _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org <mailto:Users@lists.geany.org> https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users <https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users>
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On 20.12.2017 11:55, Thomas Martitz wrote:
shouldn't this work by default? On other systems, Geany is localized by default.
We had a long discussion here some time ago. Actually it appears that there are lot of Apple users preferring the LANG=C Geany -- but might be the wrong outcoming ;)
But really, it should be more obvious or easier to switch.
Cheers, Frank
Am 21.12.2017 um 17:33 schrieb Frank Lanitz:
On 20.12.2017 11:55, Thomas Martitz wrote:
shouldn't this work by default? On other systems, Geany is localized by default.
We had a long discussion here some time ago. Actually it appears that there are lot of Apple users preferring the LANG=C Geany -- but might be the wrong outcoming ;)
But really, it should be more obvious or easier to switch.
This is strange. All other platforms are localized by default. Defaulting to english when an application is perfectly localized seems like a very strange thing to do. I can imagine this is quite confusing for newcomers, making Geany look like it's lacking translations (i.e. poor quality).
Also, I didn't think MAC users are that special. I would think they would also prefer the programs they use to be in their language?
Best regards.
On 23.12.2017 22:49, Thomas Martitz wrote:
Am 21.12.2017 um 17:33 schrieb Frank Lanitz:
On 20.12.2017 11:55, Thomas Martitz wrote:
shouldn't this work by default? On other systems, Geany is localized by default.
We had a long discussion here some time ago. Actually it appears that there are lot of Apple users preferring the LANG=C Geany -- but might be the wrong outcoming ;)
But really, it should be more obvious or easier to switch.
This is strange. All other platforms are localized by default. Defaulting to english when an application is perfectly localized seems like a very strange thing to do. I can imagine this is quite confusing for newcomers, making Geany look like it's lacking translations (i.e. poor quality).
Also, I didn't think MAC users are that special. I would think they would also prefer the programs they use to be in their language?
Well good point. I have no clue. At least Mac users I've talked with are using Geany in LANG=C and are happy with it. Personally I don't care but I was confused some time ago, too. This is the reason why we have added the flag at all. Having in mind that there is no solution fitting everyone's taste, I suggest to change the behaviour of the flag in a way, to default to default locale of the system and to allow to set some alternative lang with the flag. But ... there is something in my mind that this wasn't so easy. @jiri?
Cheers, Frank
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Frank Lanitz frank@frank.uvena.de wrote:
On 23.12.2017 22:49, Thomas Martitz wrote:
Am 21.12.2017 um 17:33 schrieb Frank Lanitz:
On 20.12.2017 11:55, Thomas Martitz wrote:
shouldn't this work by default? On other systems, Geany is localized by default.
We had a long discussion here some time ago. Actually it appears that there are lot of Apple users preferring the LANG=C Geany -- but might be the wrong outcoming ;)
But really, it should be more obvious or easier to switch.
This is strange. All other platforms are localized by default. Defaulting to english when an application is perfectly localized seems like a very strange thing to do. I can imagine this is quite confusing for newcomers, making Geany look like it's lacking translations (i.e. poor quality).
Also, I didn't think MAC users are that special. I would think they would also prefer the programs they use to be in their language?
Well good point. I have no clue. At least Mac users I've talked with are using Geany in LANG=C and are happy with it. Personally I don't care but I was confused some time ago, too. This is the reason why we have added the flag at all. Having in mind that there is no solution fitting everyone's taste, I suggest to change the behaviour of the flag in a way, to default to default locale of the system and to allow to set some alternative lang with the flag. But ... there is something in my mind that this wasn't so easy. @jiri?
Cheers, Frank
Yeah, let's make using locale default (I'll prepare a patch). I have already successfully forgotten why exactly I did it this way. Even though I for instance prefer English everywhere, this change won't impact me because I have it set up globally in settings and Geany will respect that. So I'll just make it the other way round - using locale will be default and if someone wants to ignore locale, he'll have to create ~/.config/geany/ignore_locale.
Cheers,
Jiri
Hi, Jiri, that works, thank you. I also think it would be good to create the file during installation or at least to include it in the documentation.
Cheers, Gregor
Am 20.12.2017 um 11:52 schrieb Jiří Techet techet@gmail.com:
Hi Gragor,
yes, it is possible. I made this "configurable" through the launcher script on OS X and it checks for the presence of the following file:
~/.config/geany/use_locale
If present, it uses localized strings. So simply running
touch ~/.config/geany/use_locale
will enable this for you.
Cheers,
Jiri
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Gregor <geany@taluva.de mailto:geany@taluva.de> wrote: Hello, to first of all, thank you for your great work. I have been using Geany on Linux for a long time. Now I have bought a Mac and would like to continue using Geany. After the installation Geany is in English, can I switch it to German?
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