Re: Count of localised GNOME desktops

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 02:00 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Hi All,
> I was wondering if there are stats of the number of localised GNOME
> desktops per language, as used by distributions.
> This would help to direct localisation efforts and get more support.
> 
> I think there was a discussion relating to this for Fedora 7, which I do
> not know if they collected information for localisations.

Here are the stats for Fedora,
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats

At the end of the page there is a break-down on locale. Of course there
are the cases of users that installed the distro but chose the default
locale. Considering that the default desktop environment is GNOME, this
should translate in GNOME Desktops.

In the case of Ubuntu I do not think there is an explicit process to
collect these stats. One could possibly extra such information from
accesses for updates, either to security.ubuntu.com (all systems,
whichever their locale) or to the localised CC.archive.ubuntu.com, where
CC is the country code. In either case, the locale information is not
recorded.

Simos