Hi,
our customers are almost all non-english speaking, therefore I'd like to offer them a localized interface.
is it planned some localization for Observium?
Could we contribute in some way to italian translation?
Best
Luca
There's currently no support for localisation at all, so any effort to localise would first involve converting huge amounts of UI code to support localisation.
We long ago decided this probably isn't really all that useful, given that things like IOS are all in only english. :)
Thanks, adam. On 2018-08-29 16:27:54, Luca Sasdelli luca@sasdelli.it wrote: Hi, our customers are almost all non-english speaking, therefore I’d like to offer them a localized interface. is it planned some localization for Observium? Could we contribute in some way to italian translation? Best Luca
On 30/08/18 01:33, Adam Armstrong wrote:
We long ago decided this probably isn't really all that useful, given that things like IOS are all in only english. :)
That's making the assumption that the user looking at the web interface is the same person who does the technical stuff on the devices themselves. Even in the small businesses I deal with, there is usually someone with basic understanding of how networks and stuff works, but with zero knowledge of their actual configs.
TB
Yes, this is true.
The same point stands though, we can't easily justify what I assume is a colossal piece of work to localize everything, given that it's of little benefit to the vast majority of users.
adam. On 2018-08-30 02:16:44, Tim Bates tin@new-life.org.au wrote: On 30/08/18 01:33, Adam Armstrong wrote:
We long ago decided this probably isn't really all that useful, given that things like IOS are all in only english. :)
That's making the assumption that the user looking at the web interface is the same person who does the technical stuff on the devices themselves. Even in the small businesses I deal with, there is usually someone with basic understanding of how networks and stuff works, but with zero knowledge of their actual configs.
TB
Hi,
We've looked at localizing like 10 years ago, but - it's a huge undertaking to do code-wise, which has to be done once, but then maintaned but especially - we don't have resources to maintain translations ourselves, and we would not be able to guarantee correctness or completeness of any contributed translations
If we were to support localization, you'd end up with English, Russian and Dutch ...
New text strings get added to Observium every day, you could be pretty sure it would be a mish mash of your favourite language combined with 75% of English text.
Adam,
Technically, I believe we'd need to change echo("banana") to echo(_("banana")) on every echo, and then some gettext magic to create and maintain "mo" files (and possibly optionally require some php gettext module?). At that point in time long ago it WAS decided that 'echo("...")' was required instead of 'echo "..."' so we could do a global search&replace for echo(_("...")) in the code (David M was suggesting it), but we never did it, and Observium is 10 times the size now :-)
I don't think it's currently worth the effort, unless someone wants to sponsor implementing this feature with $$, fully realizing what I said above about likely incomplete translations.
Tom
On 8/30/2018 3:56 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote:
Yes, this is true.
The same point stands though, we can't easily justify what I assume is a colossal piece of work to localize everything, given that it's of little benefit to the vast majority of users.
adam.
On 2018-08-30 02:16:44, Tim Bates tin@new-life.org.au wrote:
On 30/08/18 01:33, Adam Armstrong wrote:
We long ago decided this probably isn't really all that useful, given that things like IOS are all in only english. :)
That's making the assumption that the user looking at the web interface is the same person who does the technical stuff on the devices themselves. Even in the small businesses I deal with, there is usually someone with basic understanding of how networks and stuff works, but with zero knowledge of their actual configs.
TB
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