From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kai Schlamp Subject: Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:32:36 +0200 Message-ID: <49E89304.9060303@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 17 16:41:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LupFW-0000wS-A5 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:41:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760944AbZDQOjc (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:39:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756821AbZDQOjc (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:39:32 -0400 Received: from ne31036.nerionics.de ([85.88.31.36]:55945 "EHLO ne31036.nerionics.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756560AbZDQOjb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:39:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 402 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:39:30 EDT Received: (qmail 24543 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2009 14:32:46 +0000 Received: from p54a8f090.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO ?192.168.2.33?) (84.168.240.144) by ne31036.nerionics.de with SMTP; 17 Apr 2009 14:32:46 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello. I know this had been discussed before (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/61884/match=git+gui+language), but in my opinion there is no acceptable solution yet. When I set LANG=en it also changes my keyboard layout and thats quite confusing. But the German terms used in git gui are even more confusing (I was even shocked when starting it the first time). People using git generally know what e.g. "commit" is. But the german translation ("Eintragen") seems to me a bad joke. I had to look at some screenshots of the english gui to find out what it is all about. I would suggest to keep the git idenfiers (like commit, push, pull, ....) in foreign languages. And please have an option to choose the language of the complete gui. Most developers I know of like to use tools in english, even if that is not their native language. Another thing I miss a bit is an option to select old commit messages (like the TortoiseHg client of the Mercurial project has). And a last one. It would be nice to have a menu item to add all untracked files at once. I had to add my own "Tool" for that. But apart from that (to not only nag ;-)), git gui is quite comfortable. Fine regards, Kai