#845 - Windows client missing language changing option

X2Go Bug report logs - #845
Windows client missing language changing option

Reported by: Jaakko Haavisto <jaakko_haavisto@yahoo.com>

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:00:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: pending

Found in version 4.0.3.2

Fixed in version 4.0.4.0

Done: X2Go Release Manager <git-admin@x2go.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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On 30.04.2015 12:53 PM, Jaakko Haavisto wrote: > I don't mean to offend you and the x2go team. The point what I was trying to > make is that location and language are complete different things. Yes, they are. > The point is that in windows control panel > there aren't any good setting for changing the language of the programs. That's not true. You can set your preferred/enforced language in there. > I like this MSDN way of developing localization of windows applications: > (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317790(v=vs.85).aspx) > User Interface Language Settings > When planning your MUI application, you must first decide on the languages for > the user interface and the way to present them to the user. The application can > support languages in one of these ways: > > * Follow system language settings. Assume that the user preferred UI languages > and the system preferred UI languages, taken together, represent the > languages available to the user. Use the fallback mechanism of the resource > loader for language selection. Which is exactly what X2Go Client does, or isn't it? > * Make application-specific language settings. Support specific languages and > present a selection mechanism to the user. Not doing this optional suggestion, though. > ps. I don't wan't to exploit bug to change the language, because I can handle > Finnish and English languages, but I have colleagues that aren't from Finland > and their x2go user experience would be much better if they could use whatever > language they choose without changing windows location. So I started this > conversion with you so I could propose that adding language selection menu to > x2go settings could benefit a lot of people. Sorry, but I don't understand your problem. In the Windows system settings, language and location settings are two different things, as you already mentioned. I generally set my location to Germany and the language to US English. That's working like a charm for every application I have met so far, including X2Go Client. Mihai

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X2Go Bug report logs - #845 Windows client missing language changing option

X2Go Bug report logs - #845
Windows client missing language changing option