Improvements for language pack management

[jumba]

Auto change the general.useragent.locale on language pack installation/activation? Language packs should work the same way as themes, only one can be activated at a time. And when switching to another language pack prompt for restart.
http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php ... 20&p=40110

Auto-updating of language packs? (same way as normal addons?)
http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php ... 346&p=7543
Thanks to Tobin language packs are now updated automatically!

Integrate language installation/selection to the browser or installer? Choosing the program locale during the installation would be the best, but it should be possible also within the program.

Some examples of addons for FX to improve language management:
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/langua ... tall-helpe
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/language-manager

[dark_moon]

Yes this is a nice idea and it looks the other threads are forgotten.

[Supernova]

That's more or less in the PM roadmap already from what I understood, at least for the two first parts of the suggestions. Not high priority however.
Would be a good help to spread PM.

[Moonchild]

It's on the roadmap, but first priority is to find a way to actually have a proper localization system for translators to work in.

We're looking into the first two issues closely.
Providing 90 different installers for individual languages is, however, not on the roadmap. I do have some ideas of improving the web installer for non-English locales, performing some automatic installations and settings, but I'm really busy with core stuff at the moment for 25.3 (I'm excited about the progress there, actually) so the language pack installation convenience is, unfortunately, lower priority.

[dark_moon]

Just a idea and work only with the installer builds:
After install check the system language and ask if the language should be downloading.

So we translaters just give you the translation file, so you can put it on the ftp server and then the installer can download it and config the general.useragent.locale setting.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

I have been thinking of an add-on to least automate locale switching and such. But I too am busy.

[Supernova]

May this happen for Pale Moon 26 ?
This is a feature which helps to spread the browser to non-technical users, is just good-looking on the releases notes ; and I understood that the localization system issue mentionned for postponing this suggestion will be completely solved as the time of PM26 which will need translators to complete languages packs.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Try: https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/other/zing-locale-switcher/

[Supernova]

Hi Tobin, I don't need to change my own browser locale regularly, neither the UA locale. That's kind of you to suggest this, but this isn't the use case I refer to, which is first installation for non-english speaker. (First suggestion of jumba's OP ; the second having been done since then, that's a good start)

[jumba]

Auto change the general.useragent.locale on language pack installation/activation?

Can we workaround this by setting the intl.locale.matchOS to true by default?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Intl.locale.matchOS
bug #331779