Re: [Evolution-hackers] Language selection in composer

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I would like to implement this feature (bug #127530) and I've got some
> essential questions that aren't related to any component, so I don't
> know, who should I address...

The bounty link mentioned in the bug is broken -- here it is:
  http://gnome.org/bounties/Mailer.html#127530


> First of all, how can I retrieve the list of all languages available
> to the user? Should it be that languages that have evolution
> localization available (How can I determine which languages have
> evolution l10n? Should I go through $prefix/share/locale/ and find
> evolution-1.5.mo?) Or should it be just all languages that are defined
> in ISO 639 (Is there any other way than to hardcode it, than?).
> It seems usefull to have names of all languages localized to all
> languages (because evolution needs to show a list of available
> languages to the user). How can I get this?

IMHO getting the list of available options / languages from the locales
would be a very bad idea.

$ find . -name "evolution-2.0.mo" | wc -l
55

As I understand the bounty, one of it's main aims is to set the spell
checking language. You can get those languages available from

  Tools / Settings / Composer Preferences / Spell Checking

which is the same list as Edit / Current Languages in the Composer.
Anyway, the animated GIF definitely shows the *wrong* UI for spell
checking. Cause it lets you select *one* option only.

One of the main benefits of Evolution and how it handles Spell Checking
to me is, that I can enable multiple languages. German and English here.
I do write a lot in both languages (as you probably all know ;-) and I
don't have to worry about switching Languages at all.

If I would have to switch languages (due to the lack of multiple
choices), this would be hell for me and a lot of other folks on the
mailing list. This topic nearly was beaten to death, about a year ago...


> Second, I need to get strings from different locales (because of
> changing those "On DATE, PERSON wrote:" labels). Should I do it using
> setlocale() before and after obtaining that strings, or any other way?

As Jeff mentioned, this is planned to become a user configurable string
anyway.

Which leaves a nice iconified flag drop-down menu to set "the Content-
Language header, and various other things". Although I dunno, what
"other things" are...


Maybe the UI team should take care of this bounty and re-consider before
anyone starts hacking on it. Should I poke Anna?

...guenther


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