[Koha-bugs] [Bug 14100] Generic solution for language overlay

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Fri Jul 10 16:36:15 CEST 2015


http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14100

--- Comment #8 from Gaetan Boisson <gaetan.boisson at biblibre.com> ---
I like this feature very much :)

I agree with Marc regarding the language code. (A good example for this would
be zh_CN and zh_TW where the two variants don't use the same characters.)

Right now the tool is offering you a list of languages to choose from that
doesn't match the templates you have installed. I think this will confuse
users. (It certainly confused me.)

Jonathan explained me that his idea was to make the languages available even if
they are not installed yet, so that you can translate and it will work
immediately when you decide to install them.
In my experience users decide which translation they want at the very beginning
of a project, and set everything up from there onwards. There should be a
fallback mechanism to a translated string if none exists for the selected
language though.

Long story short, i think we should display a list that fits the installed
templates (like for news).

I agree with Josef's suggestion of displaying the translations directly in the
table with the list of itemtypes. This will make it easy to spot what is
missing a translated string. I doubt users will ever install more than a
handful of translations, so it should remain manageable.
Maybe they could all be displayed directly in the description column like this:

Audio tape (en)
Cassette audio (fr-FR)
Audiokassette (de-DE)

The language corresponding to the currently selected language could be
highlighted. And obviously on other pages where we don't have to manage the
translation, we would only see the translation for the currently selected
language.

Adding a translate link in a separate column doesn't look über-important to me,
since i think this will be part of setting up itemtypes (and others) at the
beginning, and not something we will keep coming back to. But i don't mind.

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