181173 - XPI Engine needs to expose some localized messages to packages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect)

Description

[timeless]

de-AT has the following line:
          alert("Installation finished. You should be able to select to use this
locale via Edit > Preferences (Category: Appearance > Languages/Content).");

This line and similar lines probably appear in many localizations. 

In normal use this isn't a problem since the speaker speaks English, grabs the
German package and installs it. seeing an English message doesn't bother the
English speaker.

But ... what if the original language was Japanese, French, Hebrew or Russian?

I was running de-AT and installed a newer de-AT. The last thing I expected to
see was en-US text popping up. The text doesn't actually help me. Even though I
can read it, I can't use the words it lists to find my way through mozilla
because my menus are in de-AT and my preference dialog is in de-AT.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

confirmed. We could probably have a selection of generic texts for language
packs, themes, and Add-Ons in XPInstall, that are a bit more specific about what
has been done than just the "Success" that we have now in the install dialog.
We have to figure out though, how we know what to display...

Probably there should also be a generic dialog that lets the user select if he
wants a global or profile install of the package (if he has write permission to
the global chrome directory), this way, the most used additional dialogs of XPI
packs could be replaced by generic solutions.

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

The xpinstall script engine has been removed from the trunk, bugs in it are obsolete.