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- Debian menu includes translations of menu sections names
- in various languages. The list is available in
- /etc/menu-methods/lang.h.
-
- A) Selecting the language:
-
- 1) System-wide:
- The simplest way is to set up root locales and menu will be translated
- accordingly.
-
- Another solution is to add
- outputlanguage="xx"
- in /etc/menu-methods/menu.h
- where xx is you language code.
-
- 2) User-wide:
- Just run update-menus under the locales of your choice.
- You can also copy the file
- /etc/menu-methods/<your favorite wm>
- to
- ~/.menu-methods/
- and add
- outputlanguage="xx"
- where xx is you language code.
-
- 3) KDE
- Make sure menu-xdg is installed and that root locales are not "C".
- Menu will be translated in all languages at once. The users just
- need to configure KDE to use their language and menus will follow.
-
- B) Problems:
- There are unfortunately lots of reasons why translations would fail:
- window-manager not supporting menu translations, not supporting your
- locale encoding or not supporting user menus.
-
- You can try to add
- outputencoding="LOCALE"
- at the start of /etc/menu-methods/<your favorite wm>
- and run update-menus under different locale encodings.
-
- C) Screenshots
- Some screenshots are available at
- <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/menu-snapshot>.
-
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- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:23:53 +0200
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