Re: [gtk-list] Re: glibc based GTK apps changing languages on the fly

["Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak is tsukuba ac jp>]

Marcus Brubaker <spoon@elpaso.net> wrote,

> On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Ian McKellar wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 01:56:26PM -0500, Tarek Chammah wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Can Gtk/Gnome glibc-based applications change languages (like menus
> > > changing from one language to another and so forth) on the fly?
> > > 
> > > For example you go the the "Language" menu and change the current
> > > language used in the application from English to Spanish or Arabic and the
> > > application changes languages on the fly without restarting.
> > 
> > Wow! That would be so cool!
> > 
> > There could be a "Language" control-center applet for gnome, where you could
> > change the language, and suddenly all your apps would change language... That
> > would be SO cool... *drool*
> > 
> 
> Cool, yes, very.  Useful, no, not really.

Especially, if it implies changing input methods, it would
be extremely useful.  I am living in a Mule-enabled XEmacs
switching between English, Germany (with umlauts), and
Japanese all day long...

Manuel

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   Manuel M. T. CHAKRAVARTY                      chak@score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp
   University of Tsukuba, Japan     http://www.score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~chak/
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