Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mardi 18 septembre 2007 à 11:24 +0200, Rodrigo Moya a écrit :
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 11:32 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On 9/17/07, Sergey Udaltsov <sergey udaltsov gmail com> wrote:
> > > > In an ideal world, you should be able to change your language and not
> > > > need to restart your session,
> > > I am afraid that would be unrealistically ideal world. The whole
> > > Unix/Linux i18n infractructure would have to be exploded (starting
> > > from gettext) to implement this. I think it is not worth the effort -
> > > a lot of headache vs one session restart.
> > >
> > > But ok, raising it on d-d-l might prove me wrong.
> > >
> > 
> > No, you are totally right.
> 
> I'm no expert on i18n, but shouldn't it suffice to signal all GTK apps
> and have them change the locale and then update the strings? If I'm
> right, we could just add the handling of this signal to the widgets
> themselves (GtkLabel, menus, etc). Or am I totally wrong?

Wrong ;)

Every single applications and libraries are calling setlocale
themselves, based on environment variables, it would requires to patch
every application out there.

And for people using non GNOME applications, it would fail too.
-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva