"Your browser languages" doesn't do anything useful

Bug #93637 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

If your browser is set up to request Web pages in languages other than English (en), <https://launchpad.net/+editmylanguages> shows a "Your browser languages" box listing them. However, this list doesn't do anything useful: it's no easier to add any of those languages to your preferred languages than it is to add any other language to your preferred languages.

One useful thing to do would be, instead of listing the browser languages in a separate box, listing them first in the list of available languages.

Tags: lp-registry ui
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Simon Bohlin (simon-bohlin) wrote :

Hi! Have I understood you, that the point is that +editmylanguages ignores the browser-setting (*) and you wish it would instead make use of these details for that settings page and show those languages on the top?
I'd say it is slightly useful, but I only used that page once to add my two languages and then forgot about it. (I do admit I actually enjoyed scrolling through that long list of languages.) I'd vote for Rosetta development to focus on more everyday issues.

* which makes the browser send that list in the headers with every web request)

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

You're right, this is Low importance, I just don't like seeing anything in Launchpad that isn't useful. :-)

Changed in rosetta:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in rosetta:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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era (era) wrote :

Just as a side comment, I got that box even though English is the only language I have set up in my browser. See also some side comments of mine in bug 194143 (which as such is not a duplicate, and -- I understand -- solved now).

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era (era) wrote :

Cf also bug 29621

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: removed: fix-it-friday
affects: rosetta → launchpad-registry
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