locale specific for .desktop

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Thursday 18 October 2007 12:34:01 Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center 
escreveu:
> In the current implemetation, I have no workaround to do this but this
> configuration is needed by users. Would you help this?
[snip]
> The situation is, whether the configuraters like it or not, the settings
> are needed under a contract and the application is expected to use on a
> locale.

If I understand correctly now, you're under a contract to develop an 
application that shows in the menus only when the locale is set to a given 
value.

If you're looking into modifications for the XDG standard, then you must also 
be under contract to provide the entire desktop to the user. Otherwise, the 
point is moot: no desktop *today* supports the OnlyShowInLang feature. So, 
even if we agree on this change, it'll take around 6 months for the first 
versions supporting the feature to start rolling out -- and about 2 years for 
it to be mainstream.

So, assuming you have control of the desktop, I suggest you simply hijack the 
language selection applet in the desktop and delete/add the menu entry. This 
satisfies your contract.

If you cannot implement this (I wouldn't -- it's too hacky), then you must 
provide a workaround for the desktops where the feature is not present.

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