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[Milo Casagrande]

2010/4/5 Shaun McCance <shaunm at gnome.org>:
>> > The text portion is the easy part for translators. Taking
>> > new screenshots is the hard part. Note that translators
>> > aren't usually the expert users that the writers are, so
>> > they might have to do a lot of setup to get to the point
>> > where they can take equivalent screenshots.
>> One ridiculously ugly hack I can think of is to use gconf to modify the
>> language each time the "take screenshot" button is pressed so the Desktop
>> switches to individual languages and takes a screenshot for each one of
>> them. Since Gnome doesn't need to restart for applying language changes (or
>> I think it doesn't, based on my little experience with this functionality),
>> this _just_ might work.
>
> It doesn't switch languages on the fly, in fact. It's one of
> the few things that can't be changed without logging out and
> back in. That's because language is set by a (standard) set
> of environment variables, and there's no way to change those
> out from underneath a running process.

Based on what kind of application you need the screenshots of, you can
always launch that application from the command line like this:
LANG=LANG_CODE app_command

That's not really on the fly, and you need also to have locale for
that target language set up with all the translations installed
(hoping the application is translated in that very language).

But that, at least for me, is a simple workaround to test UI in other
languages during your session.

Ciao.

-- 
Milo Casagrande <milo at casagrande.name>