translations are unsorted in Windows installer
Bug #1654460 reported by
uwestoehr
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Low
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Patrick Storz |
Bug Description
In the Windows installer for 0.92 it is very hard to find e.g. the language Spanish in the list of translations to be installed.
The reason is that the languages are not sorted with their names. I see now that they are sorted by their two letter code. This is not only intuitive, I bet the vast majority doesn't know that languages have such a code nor what the code for the language is. I mean when I want to have e.g. Armenian, I look under "a" in the list and don't have the idea to scroll down to "hy" because this is its language code.
tags: | added: packaging win32 win64 |
Changed in inkscape: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
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### WiX
For the MSI installer this could be "hardcoded" as we do not currently support localization and the sort order would always be the same.
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### NSIS
For the EXE installer this is not something we can fix that easily as the displayed language names change between locales and therefore we have to update the sort order depending on the selected installer language on-the-fly.
There seem to be possibilities, though, see [1] (apparently requested by theAdib a long time ago to fix exactly this issue :-D ), however it could easily cause more serious issues if the sorting fails for whatever reason (the code to generate the language sections in the NSIS installer is already quite complex).