Re: localized oaf ...

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

On Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at 05:27  PM, Michael Meeks wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Darin Adler wrote:
> > > 	Almost certainly not - but it's probably the best place for it
> > > right now - either that - or we simply cache the locale inside liboaf at
> > > the time the first localized prop get is called - people who manipulate
> > > LC_LANG in mid-program have it coming anyway [ arguably ].
> >
> > I think the parameter is there not for people who want to change
> > LC_LANG but rather for other situations like programs that might be
> > getting strings for display on behalf of another user, perhaps one on
> > another computer.
>
> 	This seems somewhat unusual and unlikely, and either way would
> probably be best served by passing the OAF_ServerInfo across to them and
> getting them to call the get_localized_prop method themselfs.

I'm not sure. I was trying to guess the reason the language list was 
passed in, not explain a design that I had come up with myself, so it's 
quite possible I'm wrong about the reason it's there.

If there's a way to get the results we desire without having to pass the 
language list around, that would be even better than what we have in gnome 
1's oaf. Perhaps there was some desire to not code into oaf the rules 
about which environment variable determines the language. I guess we have 
to wait to hear from Maciej or perhaps Elliot.

Can you think of any advantages to the current scheme, Michael?

    -- Darin