Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Having a spanish help page for the Voip Calls dialog is compl
IMHO,
English is the only language worth being mantained. To get it clear:
In our field(s) documentation in other languages is scarse and/or
obsolete. That is: English in this field is not an option.
As I've told many people, first learn English which is (almost) a
prerequisite to learn everything else in this field. You won't go far
without it.
L
On 5/24/05, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> Just had a look at the recent changes in the Voip Calls dialog.
>
> It now contains a Help button which opens up another dialog with just
> two buttons: "Go to spanish help page" and "Go to english help page"
>
> IMHO: THIS IS COMPLETELY ODD for several reasons:
>
> First: it doesn't make sense to have a program completely in english
> only (menus, dialogs, documentation, ...) except for *exactly one* wiki
> help page.
>
> Second: Pressing a button just to get another dialog with just two
> buttons is bad GUI design IMO.
>
> Third: The user shouldn't be asked for it's preferred language somewhere
> at a dialog box deeply in the hierarchy. If this model would be used all
> over the GUI this would be just ridiculous.
>
> Fourth: don't provide a dialog without a "Close" button, as on some
> platforms you won't be able to close it.
>
>
> Unless someone gives me a *very* good reason why it has to be that way,
> I would ask the one who committed it, please remove at least the Spanish
> part.
>
> I don't have anything against the Spanish (or any other) language, but
> adding multi language support should be agreed upon and thought about in
> a more general way. But as we have problems keeping even the english
> version uptodate (e.g. documentation), I don't think it's a good idea to
> start provide support for other languages, without having the manpower
> to maintain it.
>
> Regards, ULFL
>
> P.S: I was thinking about adding multi language support (german in my
> case), but dismissed that idea as the effort wouldn't make much sense
> and could better be spend elsewhere. Providing partly support (e.g. only
> menus) is just odd, as this will promise things it cannot hold (and e.g.
> mixing english and german in one program will look really odd). And
> adding support for *all* protocol field descriptions would be a very
> huge amount of work, and making it almost impossible to maintain IMHO.
>
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