Interface Language Defaults

[eren]

Hi,

I downloaded and installed QL to see if I could make use of it as part of a personal project. When I launched the application (on my Windows machine) the first thing I noticed is that it defaults to the language of my "region" (or country if you like) without asking my preference. Quite a bad design decision. It would make sense to default to the interface language of the operating system but the locale? That's just frustrating. (1)

I must admit QL is not the only program that does this, so I'm experienced at finding "Preferences" and the "Language Settings" so that I can revert the interface language back to English. But there comes the second surprise: there is no "Language Preferences" in the whole interface. So if you happen to live in, say Russia and set your region correctly to be able to have the correct time, then you're stuck with Russian interface. (2)

These 2 frustrations are enough for me to just uninstall the application without any further investigation (as of now I'm quite sure that QL is not my choice of audio player). And that's what I'll do once I'm done with investigating QL's way of handling the media library.

But before that: in case some other people experience the same annoyances as I did and are more patient than me here is how to revert back to the English user interface:

• Close QL
• Go to C:\Program Files\Quod Libet\share\locale (or C:\Program Files (x86)\Quod Libet\share\locale)
• Open 'locale.alias' file in a text editor (Notepad would do)
• Delete the content of the file, save it and close the file.
• Launch QL. Now you should have the English UI.

If you want some other language as your interface, you will probably need to keep the line with your preferred language. If you want your interface in Turkish that the locale.alias file should have the following line:

turkish         tr_TR.ISO-8859-9

Hope this helps someone.
Cheers.

Here is the content of the file (note that I've commented out all the languages using a #):

#bokmal        nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
#bokmål        nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
#catalan        ca_ES.ISO-8859-1
#croatian    hr_HR.ISO-8859-2
#czech        cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2
#danish          da_DK.ISO-8859-1
#dansk        da_DK.ISO-8859-1
#deutsch        de_DE.ISO-8859-1
#dutch        nl_NL.ISO-8859-1
#eesti        et_EE.ISO-8859-1
#estonian    et_EE.ISO-8859-1
#finnish         fi_FI.ISO-8859-1
#français    fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
#french        fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
#galego        gl_ES.ISO-8859-1
#galician    gl_ES.ISO-8859-1
#german        de_DE.ISO-8859-1
#greek           el_GR.ISO-8859-7
#hebrew          he_IL.ISO-8859-8
#hrvatski    hr_HR.ISO-8859-2
#hungarian       hu_HU.ISO-8859-2
#icelandic       is_IS.ISO-8859-1
#italian         it_IT.ISO-8859-1
#japanese    ja_JP.eucJP
#japanese.euc    ja_JP.eucJP
#ja_JP        ja_JP.eucJP
#ja_JP.ujis    ja_JP.eucJP
#japanese.sjis    ja_JP.SJIS
#korean        ko_KR.eucKR
#korean.euc     ko_KR.eucKR
#ko_KR        ko_KR.eucKR
#lithuanian      lt_LT.ISO-8859-13
#no_NO        nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
#no_NO.ISO-8859-1 nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
#norwegian       nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
#nynorsk        nn_NO.ISO-8859-1
#polish          pl_PL.ISO-8859-2
#portuguese      pt_PT.ISO-8859-1
#romanian        ro_RO.ISO-8859-2
#russian         ru_RU.ISO-8859-5
#slovak          sk_SK.ISO-8859-2
#slovene         sl_SI.ISO-8859-2
#slovenian       sl_SI.ISO-8859-2
#spanish         es_ES.ISO-8859-1
#swedish         sv_SE.ISO-8859-1
#thai        th_TH.TIS-620
#turkish         tr_TR.ISO-8859-9

[Christoph Reiter]

On Feb 4, 3:19 pm, eren <eren.canpo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded and installed QL to see if I could make use of it as part of a
> personal project. When I launched the application (on my Windows machine)
> the first thing I noticed is that it defaults to the language of my
> "region" (or country if you like) without asking my preference. Quite a bad
> design decision. It would make sense to default to the interface language
> of the operating system but the locale? That's just frustrating. (1)

You are right, I mixed that up somehow and didn't notice since my test
system is all German. I'll fix it for the 2.4 release.

> These 2 frustrations are enough for me to just uninstall the application
> without any further investigation (as of now I'm quite sure that QL is not
> my choice of audio player). And that's what I'll do once I'm done with
> investigating QL's way of handling the media library.

Thanks for reporting it instead of just uninstalling.

[Christoph Reiter]

On Feb 4, 8:18 pm, Christoph Reiter <reiter.christ...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> You are right, I mixed that up somehow and didn't notice since my test
> system is all German. I'll fix it for the 2.4 release.

It's more complicated than I thought... so probably not in 2.4

[Emiliano Heyns]

This didn't work for me, alas, the UI remains in Dutch.

[Christoph Reiter]

Corresponding bug report:
http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/issues/detail?id=1009