Default GUI language

l10n
#1

Hi folks,
Over the last week or so I have been trying to make a silent
installation on Windows and I came to the conclusion that its not
possible to set the default GUI language in the installation wizard.

I solved the problem by installing an extension.

This extension can be changed into any default language just by changing
the content of the linguistic.xcu in the extension.

Feel free to use it if you want :slight_smile:

http://blog.magenta-aps.dk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DanishUI.oxt

Cheers,
Leif Lodahl
The Danish Team

#2

Hi folks,
Over the last week or so I have been trying to make a silent
installation on Windows and I came to the conclusion that its not
possible to set the default GUI language in the installation wizard.

But you can solve it by creating a .mst file or by modifying the
existing trans_da.mst. (I use Orca to edit msi/mst files). In Property
section set all IS<number> property to 0, only IS1030 (Danish) should
be 1.

I solved the problem by installing an extension.

This extension can be changed into any default language just by changing
the content of the linguistic.xcu in the extension.

How do you silently install that DanishUI.oxt together with LibreOffice?

Thanks,
Andras

#3

I guess the point is if LO offers multilang installers instead of separate
full-lang packs, these should offer silent install in all included
languages. And they do not. I guess this is a bug for LO Windows installers
and should be treated as that - not that L10N teams would go tinkering the
multilang installers and offering them in their webspace. If possible then
they should strip the multilang builds to their need.
BTW, is that possible - could there be a tool that would take a
full-multi-lang installer (built by LO for every release specially for lang
teams and not intended for mirror servers and downloading by regular users)
and L10N team would run this tool to strip it down to the languages that
should be included for that L10N team and default installer settings
(installation language, GUI language, included or not included help pack,
included extensions). Then the L10N team could offer this stripped down
version as the relase of the respective L10N team for those, that do not
want to use separate installation packs (separate help) and for marketing
purposes (including the build into magazine supplements, sites etc.).

Lp, m.

#4

Den 13-02-2011 14:14, Andras Timar skrev:

But you can solve it by creating a .mst file or by modifying the
existing trans_da.mst. (I use Orca to edit msi/mst files). In Property
section set all IS<number> property to 0, only IS1030 (Danish) should
be 1.

Thanks, I'll look into this topic soon :slight_smile:

I solved the problem by installing an extension.

This extension can be changed into any default language just by changing
the content of the linguistic.xcu in the extension.

How do you silently install that DanishUI.oxt together with LibreOffice?

Either by running unopkg after the program installation or simply by
copying the extracted files into %PROGRAMFILES%\LibreOffice
3\share\extensions\DanishUI

Thanks,
Andras

Cheers,
Leif