[haiku-i18n] Re: Localization of files and folders
- From: pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <haiku-i18n@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:07:24 +0100
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:02:30 -0600, "Travis D. Reed" <tdreed@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>
>> That is greek to me... ;) I would appreciate if you developers could
>> discuss this. In a user-friendly perspective, I believe this is very
>> important.
>>
>
> I'm *so* not a developer. :)
>
> My point was that I think files should have attributes (a cornerstone of
> BeOS & Haiku) specifically for localization. Tracker could be modified
to
> display the appropriate attribute for the user's chosen locale. For
> instance, the folder /home would retain the name /home but have an
> attribute
> Title.eo, that would be set to "hejmo" (the Esperanto word for "home").
> Tracker would check to see which locale I was set to and, finding that I
> have chosen Esperanto, it would search for the attribute Title.eo. When
it
> found this attribute, it would display it as the name of the file.
It is already possible to do that. You can remove the 'name' column in the
default display and show something else instead.
I'm worried about storing all these names as attributes. I think it adds
weight to files without a real need for it. But I think there's no perfect
solution :)
--
Adrien.
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