Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

["Sergey Udaltsov" <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

Not only that. There are also date formats, currencies etc - the
dynamic content on the screen. Changing all that on the fly would be a
major pain...

Sergey

On 9/18/07, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
>
> 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?
> --
> Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>
>
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