Comment 6 for bug 2037426

This looks like 2 bugs to me.

First, the translatable flag (oils_persist:i18n="true") definitely is needed. That's how we say what fields can have translations, and seems like a simple oversight. Combined with Stephanie's template fixes to allow in-template translations, I think the actual l10n issues will be solved.

The second is something that I run into constantly on my dev systems (and therefore have been blaming myself for, but not tracking down), but now I think we may need to invoke Bill Erickson to assist with. Here, for some reason, the automatic redirect from the very top of the app's URI namespace to the splash page simple doesn't work sometimes. When that happens and you get a blank page, if you hit refresh (or press enter in the URL bar) you'll get the "Hey, you're probably looking for the staff client" page, with a link to ./staff/splash ... I don't know why that interstitial is there at all, instead of just pushing you on to the splash page, or why that doesn't load in some cases and needs a refresh to show up.

Bill, are your ears tingling? ;)