Re: Automatic language selection

Although you have a point, i still think asking for a locale provides
advantages:
1. Some system locales might not be supported.
2. Multilingual people might want to choose a locale other than their
system locale.
3. Some users don't have admin privileges to change their system locale
(schools).
with only a tiny disadvantage:
1. Users need to click the Enter key to choose the default locale once
when they launch it the first time (the message there could make it a
little clearer where default is coming from). I think clicking Enter
once is not a big deal.

My 2 cents.

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Andreas Pflug wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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