Language setting is not preserved

[Jan Vrany]

...even when set in user preferences. Steps to reproduce:

1. Start fresh St/X (-I option)
2. Pick menu to System"" -> Settings..., then go to Language settings and change it
3. Save settings
4. Start fresh St/X again

It should come up and use the language set in step 2.

[Patrik Svestka]

This looks like it works now, if you uncheck the checkbox Use OS Language on Startup and save the settings. Could you confirm it too?

[Jan Vrany]

Replying to Patrik Svestka:

This looks like it works now, if you uncheck the checkbox Use OS Language on Startup and save the settings. Could you confirm it too?

Yes, that worked too. The problem was that this was not so obvious :-)

[Jan Vrany]

While it actually worked, the UI was hard to understand (hence this report and other reports off this tracker). To address this, the settings UI has been cleaned up to make it simpler.

Moreover, the default settings have been changed to ignore system locale an use Ennlish (US). In
my observation, most programmers prefer English and besides, translations to other languages are
so incomplete so that the UX is far from good.

As a side effect, language/locale initialization has been cleaned up so that there's no longer a global variable holding the language / region - code should always consult preferences.

In particular, this issue has been addressed by:

• 817fd8c6e4c5/stx.libbasic - Issue #80: added AbstractOperatingSystem class >> #getLanguage and #getLanguageTerritory
• 5d343af8922a/stx.libbasic - Issue #80: keep language settings in UserPreferences
• 9c9fa5a584bb/stx.libbasic - Issue #80: remove initialization of Language and LanguageTerritory globals.
• 6d994e1ee4fc/stx.libview - Issue #80: fixed resource file parsing to not access Language nor LanguageTerritory directly
• f778bfccd561/stx.goodies.refactoryBrowser - Issue #80: catch up with changes in stx:libbasic
• 4d8f7dd66c19/stx.libtool - Issue #80: language settins cleaned up and simplified

Note that the above fixes are in 8.0.0 branch only and won't be back-ported to 6.x.x (8.0.0 will be released soon(tm), I hope)

[Patrik Svestka]

I have tested these languages: CZ, EN(US), DE, RU, SK. The resources are incomplete for the other languages than English, but that calls for volunteers. There are more urgent matters to attend.

Good job!