Bug #16093

Remove untranslated Chinese languages from Tails Greeter

Added by sajolida 2018-11-04 07:00:19 . Updated 2020-04-15 06:02:18 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Internationalization
Target version:
Start date:
2018-11-04
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Code
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Welcome Screen
Deliverable for:

Description

See screenshot in attachment.

These are not languages that people use and even their name is not translated in Tails. They take up more space that groups of translated language names (who are collapsed under a single name, like “Español”) and are confusing because they appear before the Chinese that works (and that has it’s name translated) at the very bottom of the list.

Files

chinese.png (189587 B) sajolida, 2018-11-04 07:00:12

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #14544: Spend software developer time on smallish UX improvements In Progress 2018-08-31
Related to Tails - Feature #16095: Curate the list of languages in Tails Greeter Resolved 2018-11-04
Related to Tails - Feature #16094: Have simplified and traditional Chinese in the list of languages in Tails Greeter Resolved 2018-11-04

History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2018-11-04 07:08:43

  • Affected tool set to Greeter

#2 Updated by sajolida 2018-11-04 07:09:10

  • related to Feature #14544: Spend software developer time on smallish UX improvements added

#3 Updated by sajolida 2018-11-04 07:16:34

  • related to Feature #16095: Curate the list of languages in Tails Greeter added

#4 Updated by sajolida 2018-11-04 07:17:01

  • related to Feature #16094: Have simplified and traditional Chinese in the list of languages in Tails Greeter added

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2019-03-18 12:51:51

> These are not languages that people use and even their name is not translated in Tails. They take up more space that groups of translated language names (who are collapsed under a single name, like “Español”) and are confusing because they appear before the Chinese that works (and that has it’s name translated) at the very bottom of the list.

These untranslated languages are about locales like cmn_TW (Chinese, mandarin) and yue_HK (Chinese, yue). I guess they’re not grouped with the other Chinese languages because that group is about zh_* locales.

FWIW, according to https://peterburk.github.io/i2018n/ there “is a different locale cmn_TW for Hanzi collation (sort order), and zh_TW, which are both Mandarin”. While that might be in favour of exposing e.g. cmn_TW, it definitely should not be listed as “Chinese, mandarin”. I’ve tested that locale and indeed, the GNOME desktop is not translated.

I think we should hide all such languages (Chinese whose name is not translated) that totally lack GNOME translations: if there’s no translator interest whatsoever, it tends to confirm that “These are not languages that people use”.

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2019-10-05 15:04:46

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset commit:tails|53c6c19a4ede83bcc99337a46c70b8dfe7277f42.

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2020-04-15 06:02:18

  • Affected tool changed from Greeter to Welcome Screen