Re: Automatic language selection

Although you have a point, i still think asking for a locale provides advantages:<br /> 1. Some system locales might
notbe supported.<br /> 2. Multilingual people might want to choose a locale other than their system locale.<br /> 3.
Someusers don't have admin privileges to change their system locale (schools).<br /> with only a tiny disadvantage:<br
/>1. Users need to click the Enter key to choose the default locale once when they launch it the first time (the
messagethere could make it a little clearer where default is coming from). I think clicking Enter once is not a big
deal.<br/><br /> My 2 cents.<br /><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
 
Sincerely,
Reshat.
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wrote:<br/><blockquote cite="mid200403261752.03127.peter_e@gmx.net" type="cite"><pre wrap="">Andreas Pflug wrote:
</pre><blockquotetype="cite"><pre wrap="">Forgot to mention:
 
If selecting "Default", the system locale *is* used, as it is to
display the language selection box. We had a bug not storing the
user's choice for "Default" to configuration which was fixed
yesterday.   </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
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?").

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