translations not selectable on the website

Bug #570638 reported by Lucian Adrian Grijincu
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
LoCo Team Portal
Fix Released
Low
Adnane Belmadiaf

Bug Description

I cannot select the language in which I want to read http://loco.ubuntu.com/ even though it's translated in many languages already.
The website detects the current language from the browser, but I can't select another language without changing the browser settings.

Tags: research ui

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

I'm not sure we should or can easily change that. Usually your browser settings are what you want to see, no? Isn't this the way how it works for other sites too?

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Lucian Adrian Grijincu (lucian.grijincu) wrote : Re: [Bug 570638] Re: translations not selectable on the website

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Daniel Holbach
<email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm not sure we should or can easily change that.

A list with all the languages on the top right.
A cookie in the browser holding info about the last selected language.
No cookie -> use the language defined in the browser.

> Usually your browser settings are what you want to see, no?

It just adds a feature.
There are lots of places with public computers that you don't want to
fiddle with.

For example: student campuses, web-cafes, public information centers,
and others.
The default language there is set by the admin and might not represent
the options of the users.

> Isn't this the way how it works for other sites too?

Translated sites usually give you the option to select which language
you want to use.
The browser language is just a default option.

Hopefully, for most users, that's all that's needed, but that's not always so.

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..: Lucian

Changed in loco-directory:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: research ui
Changed in loco-directory:
assignee: nobody → Adnane Belmadiaf (adnane002)
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
milestone: none → 0.2.14
Changed in loco-directory:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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