Re: [Gimp-developer] OSX

[Michael Bauer <fios akerbeltz org>]

Well, for those whose locales are supported, that still removes user 
control over the UI language. Not a good idea.

But the really big problem is for locales not supported by the OS, many 
medium to small locales fall into this category. If someone localizes 
GIMP into, for the sake of argument, Dyirbal (one of the bigger 
Australian languages), then they are stuffed unless the application 
offers a manual UI language selection because the OS certainly doesn't 
offer Dyirbal. In fact 95% of the world's 6000 languages are not 
supported as locales by most OS.

It's actually fairly common to have a UI language selection in 
applications but I can see why users of bigger languages might miss it 
if they rely on force-locale. VLC, WordPress, GCompris and Opera (the 
browser) have one for example, Firefox offers single-locale downloads 
i.e. you download a specific language build, LibreOffice has locale dmgs 
you can install manually for specific locales.

It's *particularly* bad on iOS (which isn't the issue here but just to 
illustrate) - although there ARE Gaelic localizations of Opera Mini and 
WordPress for iOS, users cannot access them because the apps do not 
offer such a manual choice and rely solely on force-locale.

Michael

15/09/2014 13:00, sgrìobh gimp-developer-list-request gnome org:
> 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.
> >
> >Regards
> >Simone Karin