42391 - Add Locale Switching to Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 65251

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Robert Kaiser]

Doing M16 L10n work, Lynggaard and me saw that there is no UI for switching
locales. So you could perhaps install a new locale via XPI but how to switch
back to en-US (without manually editing user-locales.rdf)?
We saw that we would need a Locale pref panel like "themes" is now. Either as
advanced or appearance panel, I think.
It should be relatively easy to add that, as locale and skin switching should
use the same mechanisms, only the names of functions are different.

Comment 1

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

this new panel is essentially the same as themes, so it is merely a matter of
copy /paste and replaceing the references to skin with references to locale.

This is a high priority, as mozilla gets more attention and because there are
currently more locales than skins, and many contributers are waiting for this to
happen

Comment 2

[Fredrik Sundberg]

This is already in. Start up the Profile Manager and choose Create Profile. At 
the second window you are given an option to choose language for the UI and 
Regional Content. 

Comment 3

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

thanx, but we still need something with in the main browser, so people don't 
need to recreate the profile just to change language.
 

Comment 4

[rchen]

Reassigned to Tao.

Comment 5

[tao]

*** Bug 43143 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Peter "jag" Annema]

From what I understood from conversations with tao, this won't work until a bug 
is fixed which currently prevents locale switching while Mozilla is running.

tao, is there a bugzilla bug report for that? If not, would you mind filing one?
Could you make this one depend on it?

Comment 7

[tao]

The runtime switching feature won't work unless 32661 is fixed!

Comment 8

[Masato]

how about ...
- programming the Locale switching pref panel & make a popup:
  "you need to restart mozilla to make it work."
  (it save a lot of work & restart mozilla is not the big deal)
- creating a category "Localizations-->technically/programming
  (it's easier for problems which are not bounded to a language)

Comment 9

[tao]

The full-blown Pref UI for locale switching is on our plan. But, you can check 
out the menuitem, "View|Langauge & Regional Content", in the browser window. 
It's very similar to what your proposal.

THanks

Comment 10

[Masato]

Yep ^_^
the adding of a localization is still awkward.
In "all-locale.rdf should be only this:
-------------------------------------------
  <RDF:Seq about="urn:mozilla:locale:root">
    <RDF:li resource="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US"/>
    <RDF:li resource="urn:mozilla:locale:en-GB"/>
  </RDF:Seq>
--------------------------------------------
(a list of the localizations)
the details schould be in those files:
locale_en-US.rdf
locale_en-GB.rdf
(...)
if mozilla scan for locale_??-??.rdf
all-locales.rdf isn't needed.

that way you can easy add a locale without editing files or bock other locales.
(helpfull at colleges/schools/companies where multiple locals may needed)

PS: Why is the Additional Comments Fields just 5 lines (It's ridiculous)

Comment 11

[tao]

Hi, Ben:


How do you like to take this since the locale switcher UI will be very simlar to
the theme switcher. You probably come have both built on the same template and
have more consistent UI style.

Comment 12

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Nav Triage Team accepting for Beta 1.

Changing to P3 per Nav Triage.

Comment 13

[James Green]

Changing summary from "Need Locale switching pref panel additionally to Themes"
to "Add Locale Switching in Mozilla" since it makes more sense (by vote in irc
;). Adding keyword mozilla0.9 to get on radar. Part of the big triage of Ben's
buglist.

Comment 14

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65251 ***

Comment 15

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Verified as dup.