[haiku] Re: Authentification?
- From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:21:04 -0400
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Daniel Devine <devine-mlist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> One of the GSOC students was working on i18n but I am not sure how that is
> going. There is a lot of internationalization issues in Haiku, if you go
> through the code you can see that there is language support hardcoded into
> applications...
If you mean the some of the Mail stuff with hardcoded English and
Japanese, yes, there is some hardcoding. Mostly that was just
inherited from the Mail Daemon Replacement (which I guess is also
where authentification came from.) There might be a few other apps
with that too.
Besides that issue another major problem with i18n support in Haiku is
all the hard-coded layouts. Our GUI layout system is fairly new and a
lot of things haven't been converted to use it because the hard-coded
layouts were working fine in those cases. But once you start having
applications use multiple languages you have no choice but to use the
layout system. This isn't a terrible thing but the layout API still
hasn't stood the test of time and isn't set in stone yet.
But we will get there. A lot of great progress was made in the GSoC in
taking care of the i18n problem.
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Regards,
Ryan
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