From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kai Schlamp Subject: Re: Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:44:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <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 16:52:52 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 1LupQf-0005mX-BT for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:52:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761404AbZDQOuK (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:50:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761370AbZDQOuJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:50:09 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:32864 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761377AbZDQOuH (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:50:07 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LupOE-0008Uv-Fz for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:50:02 +0000 Received: from p54a8f090.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.168.240.144]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:50:02 +0000 Received: from schlamp by p54a8f090.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:50:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54a8f090.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <49E89304.9060303@gmx.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Oh I forgot to say. I am using Git under Cygwin (not quite sure if LANG=en also under Linux changes the keyboard layout too). Kai Schlamp schrieb: > 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 > >