locale specific for .desktop

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Mon Oct 22 06:59:40 PDT 2007


2007/10/22, Takao Fujiwara <Takao.Fujiwara at sun.com>:
> Patryk Zawadzki さんは書きました:
> > Why not fix the application in the first place? You don't have to
> > translate it, just make it work properly.
> The application supports one locale. If we support some locales, we need to buy the locale data, then this couldn't be resolved in the software level.
> If we(Sun) say to support a locale, we need to provide the translation.

No, you just call it "Chinese Dictionary" in the desktop file or "Map
of Japan" or whatever name clearly states the language or locale
involved. No software should ever change the content available to the
user based on the current system locale.

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Patryk Zawadzki
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