Re: [Gimp-developer] OSX

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

I don't think it's a Windows thing. :)

On Windows, the language is handled in app/language.c which all works
out nicely at the moment (even if it's a hack)

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de> wrote:
> On 14.09.2014 22:11, Simone Karin Lehmann wrote:
>
> > > It used to be like this on Windows for a looong time, and turned out
> > > that many people want to use GIMP in a language different from their
> > > system's - it is quite common for users to stick with the original
> > > English, because about every tutorial you can find is written in this
> > > language.
> > >
> > > This doesn't seem to be possible with your builds at the moment, unless
> > > the users change their system preferences?
>
> > Indeed. It isn’t possible within GIMP but in System Preferences. As
> > with all other native OS X applications. At least I don’t know about
> > a native application having its own language selector.
>
> This selector has been added to GIMP to address this issue, as "your
> system is set to language X, therefor you apparently want to use your
> apps in this language" didn't exactly turn out to be what all users want
> on the Windows platforms, at least.
>
> And it isn't actually easier on Linux platforms, either, users there
> might just have been more versed with "eh, I'll just run it as
> LANG=mylanguage gimp &").
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Michael
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