On 03/08/09 06:38, Ed Greshko wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >>> If there's no downside to having them, why is there a dialogue for >>> disabling them? If the dialogue is required, a) why is it so damn stupid >>> and b) why aren't the settings preserved across updates, as they are for >>> every other configuration option Firefox has? There's really no excuse >>> for this. >>> >>> >> Then is that the "real" bug/problem. >> >> Why not file a bugzilla that addresses "language pack settings not >> preserved across updates"? >> >> I still can't figure out any benefit to disable them....but seems some >> have determined it has value. Wonder what it is... >> > I decided to spend a little time doing a bit of research..... > > First of all, if you are running en_US in your environment then > disabling languages pack does absolutely nothing since en_US is the > default for firefox. If you are running, for example, th_TH (Thai) then > th.jar will be loaded and the menus of firefox will be in Thai. If you > disable the Thai language pack...then the jar file will not be loaded > and the menus will be in US English. This doesn't seem to be correct. I have two language packs enabled, Danish and UK English. If I disable English and enable Danish, nothing is changed. If I disable both language packs same story, ff always comes up in English. But if I remove all language packs as suggested ff wont start at all. In fact I don't really know what a language pack is supposed to do. > > So, in summary, the language pack only take up 17MB of disk > space....never get loaded into memory (and only one gets loaded) unless > you are running in a non en_US environment. > > The ability to disable a given language pack is so that a user could, if > they wanted, to display the menus in English. FWIW, I could see this > being useful in my house. I could temporarily disable Chinese to make > changes to my wife's preferences without having to ask her ... What does > this say? :-) Interesting! As I mentioned above I can't do that (I assume Danish and Chinese behave similarly in this respect). > > So, the only people the bug of failing to preserve settings would affect > would be those who always want their menus in US English even though > they are running with their LANG set to something else..... -- Erik. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
