123064 - view->translate loads a useless site - make customizable?

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Sam Steingold]

when I click on view->translate, I am taken to a site other than the altavista
babelfish which is useless: it cannot translate text (only web pages), and even
there the interface is broken.
can't that location be made customizable?  (e.g., I want babelfish!)
also, right next to view->translate there should be view->dictionary (pointing
to, say, www.m-v.com).

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

Sev: nor -> enh

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To XP Apps.

That said, the translator in question usually does a better job than
babelfish.... (and it _is_ in the menu so you can translate your current page, btw).

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

->future

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

The location is customisable - check your prefs.js. It's not completely trivial
to change; I can't remember if the comments I added explaining how to do it are
still there.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Sam Steingold]

prefs.js does not have teletranslator
how do I customize it then?

Comment 6

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

"I am taken to a site other than the altavista
babelfish which is useless: it cannot translate text (only web pages),"

Well, that I would not consider a bug, not even a design issue: 

View|Translate means displaying a different view (like source, info) of the
current document, like a translation.

Comment 7

[Sam Steingold]

so? what if I prefer a different translator?
why have such a fleeting entity as a URL hardwired?!

Comment 8

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

Sam: To which comment are you replying?

Comment 9

[Sam Steingold]

yours.
hardwiring a URL is a design issue, IMO.

Comment 10

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

Well, I was specifically talking about "it cannot translate text (only web
pages)". It thought my comment made that clear.

Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Again, the URL is not hardwired. Search lxr.mozilla.org for teletranslator to
find the appropriate pref names.

Gerv

Comment 12

[James Graham]

There's browser.translation.service and browser.translation.serviceDomain

Comment 13

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 14

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420