On 7 Jun 2001, at 10:20, Sven Neumann wrote: > "Branko Collin" <collin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > Perhaps it would help (but also be a lot of work) to make it very > > > easy to switch between different languages in the menus, and/or > > > show tooltips with translations to another language. > > > > If only one could do the switching from the Preferences dialog, that > > would already be cool. > > we use gettext at the moment and gettext does not support switching > languages on the fly. Scratch my comment anyhow. I feel that switching that way on Windows would be acceptable, but setting the language for apps on Linux is standardised through the use of environment variables, and I do not know if people want to have their apps change the variables for them. -- branko collin collin@xxxxxxxxx