Re: Translation : how to ??

[David O'Callaghan <david ocallaghan cs tcd ie>]

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 13:56, Danilo Segan wrote:
> Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> >No, you can choose the language settings, at install time, or afterwards.
> >
> >There isn't a "Gnome language configuration applet" liek there is a KDE one
> >for the simple reason that Gnome follows the system language settings
> >(KDE doesn't, it has its own language setting, not compatible with system
> >configuration); in other words, it is not the Gnome responsability to
> >set the language settings, but the system (eg: the distribution)
> >responsability; that is, the language configuration tool has to be searched
> >on the system configuration tools, and not on the Gnome configuration tools.  
> >  

[I seem to have missed the intervening email]

Hi All,

I was wondering what it would take to provide this functionality. The
other day I wanted to switch from Irish (ga_IE) to English (en_IE) so
that I could print a calendar from Evolution with English month and day
names. My first attempt was to close Evolution, and in a terminal window
do 'export LANG=en; export LANGUAGE=en; export LC_ALL=en_IE;' and then
run evolution from there. That didn't seem to work, so I modified my
.profile to choose English in the same way and logged out and back in
again. Parts of the Evolution interface were now in English, but the
calendar was still in Irish. I guess this is because some of the
behind-the-scenes component magic was not restarted when I logged out
and in again. Eventually I gave up and rebooted and that solved it.

This is more of an Evolution "feature" than a localisation problem, but
it does make me wish for a simple way to change locales on the fly.

Regards,

David