Issue 92594 - Automatic online update overrides installed UI language
Summary: Automatic online update overrides installed UI language
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.4.1
Hardware: PC All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2008-08-08 12:53 UTC by yotwen
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description yotwen 2008-08-08 12:53:13 UTC 
Hi there,

Firstly, I would like to thank you for the effort and energy invested into my 
best-liked word-processor.

Secondly: Although I am German, I do prefer working with the English user 
interface of OO. When updating OO automaticly defaults to the country-setting-
language of the machine.

Instead of installing the installed user-interface language, I end up with 
loathsome German. This required a renewed download, and a offline-installation. 
Since installations do not happen on a daily base, I tend to forget, and next 
time I run into the exact same cycle of tedious idiocy. I suggest to modify 
that behaviour to one of three possibilities:

a) Detect installed language and stick to that.
b) Detect installed language and if deviating from country-settings, ask user 
to select/confirm desired language.
c) Allow user-interface-language to be selectable from the interface itself (as 
ATARI was able to do some 15 years ago).

Thank you for considering user preference over system settings.

Kind Regards

Jürgen
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld 2008-08-08 13:29:49 UTC 
It won't be easy to decide the desired language for my PC, I have installed de,
fr, it, en, es, nl :-/

I agree, for most users it would be comfortable to have a preselection (may be
in menu 'tools -> options -> OOo -> Online Update) as requested.
Comment 2 Olaf Felka 2008-11-19 10:19:22 UTC 
reassigned