Also, it could ask for a language selection, providing system locale as
default, and automatically choosing the default if no action is taken
within 10 seconds. I think this is the best approach (how arrogant of me
:)).
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Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>>
>>
>> To me this is not so much a question of functionality, it's a
>> question of user interface design: don't bother the user with
>> unnecessary questions. The application works perfectly well with the
>> default (system locale) language, and the vast majority of users
>> probably never want to change it. It's okay to have a menu entry to
>> change the language (although personally I find it unnecessary), but
>> you don't need to ask on startup. Imagine if every GUI application
>> you started asked for the language the first time. You would never
>> get any work done. It's also not helped by the fact that normally
>> Afrikaans is the default choice and you need to scroll around to find
>> other popular languages. I've seen people look at the pgAdmin
>> language selection dialog and most were puzzled or annoyed ("Where is
>> my language?", "Why does it have to ask this?", "Why can't pgAdmin
>> work like the other apps?").
>>
>>
> User's annoyance is a strong argument. How do the others think about
> that?
>
> The initial message box is meant as something like installation
> postprocessing.
> For sure, the option to change language is very necessary. Many people
> have different language installations from their native language.
> Think of German sysadmins who like to install English OS versions
> (e.g. me, esp. Windows, chance for support is much better), but might
> like to use a localized tool.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
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