12 Sep
2018
12 Sep
'18
8:59 a.m.
Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2018 schrieb William Morder:
It could be that I am dense, and have missed what you
are really asking.
(Sorry, I will blame it on lack of sleep and not enough coffee. Yeah, that
sounds believable....)
If you mean to change the language settings for the whole TDE desktop ...
so that all headers - that is, in the programs themselves, are in German
(for example) - then I think you need to set the locale in the TCC / System
Administration / login manager / Adminstrator Mode. It has been awhile
since I played with these settings, but I did try some different language
settings there. That locale setting changes the GUI for the whole desktop
(not just, as I was thinking, in Kmail, or in your web browser, or message
boxes in chat programs, etc.).
Sorry if I was misunderstanding your question. But this won't *instantly*
change the whole GUI for the desktop; for that, you would need to reboot
after making the change.
Bill
Dear Bill,
I want the menus etc. of one program inside the GUI/TDE changed to another
language, only that. Right, you can do that only globally in TCC, and that
effects only programs started thereafter (or the whole TDE if you logout /
login). That is possible in TDE TCC the way I described. I think, we agree so
far, and that's what I do.
I switch language in TCC, start a program and switch language back. I've one
programming running with a different language GUI. That's fine, but not
convenient and rather quite fiddling for my taste. It would be nice to be able
to switch the UI language for a particular single program only and, more
conveniently so.
So, the function is there. Question: how to access it directly? A method with
one click (like the systray symbol for keyboard layouts), one command (some
kcmshell or dcopserver thing, haven't tried so far) or one prepended env
Variable like proposed in other mails would be much appreciated, but as of now
it seems we haven't found it yet.
Thanks for trying!
Kind regards,
Stefan
PS: the point of switching language for one program is when I encounter problems
or questions I want to report to MLs etc. I feel the need to denominate menus
etc. in English language...