David Balažic: > On 7 September 2014 14:29, Sebastian G. <bastik.tor> < > bastik.tor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> Downsides: >> - Higher file size for the package. >> - Higher bandwidth requirement for single package users. >> - Users have to select their language during "install". (UI problem?) >> > > Users already made a language choice when installing the OS (or booting an > OEM install for the first time). > This choice should be good enough for the majority. The others can use a > command line switch or similar. I am not convinced by this argument. First, if you have 5 million users then 3 million is a majority, too, which would still leave 2 million to teach themselves how to switch to the desired locale. You might argue "Well, it would be much much less than 2 million people that would be affected." Maybe, who knows. But even then the first thing you'll get as support is users asking "Where do I get the [language of your choice] Tor Browser" as they landed on the english Tor project landing page and assume they get the english browser if they can't switch to the language they want (as Mozilla e.g. offers (see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/) ), which they don't want. If you somehow avoided/managed that you need to take care of the people that really want to use another language or you ask all on first start which would be the second hurdle users have to take to get Tor Browser running. And you need that for all supported OSes propably with screenshots explaining things. Then you need to take care of a fraction of them that activated a language (e.g. Chinese) you ship by accident and are now completely lost as they are not able to parse, e.g. Chinese and thus to get back the language they want. So, in short: I am quite concerned about the usability issues (and I probably missed a bunch) that would follow from having all locales in one bundle. But there is hope for you: We plan to have a hardened/alpha series which contains all the locales already in it. See: https://bugs.torproject.org/12967 Georg
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