Bug#215205: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:18:46PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> Some come to mind, either global: criteria based on the
> percentage of population that talks a given language (based on ethnologic
> data), criteria based on the languages things (books, movies..) get
> translated into (transalation demanded world wide), which the UNESCO
> provides data about, or Debian specific: vitality of user/translators
> mailing lists, translated/localised programs, translated/localised debconf
> templates, traslated/localised documentation.
This does not make sense. If a user wishes to set a specific language, he or
she should be able to do so without knowing what criteria they were sorted
by, or having to search through the entire list (which is rather long). Such
an ordering has to be _very_ intuitive (currently it's semi-alphabetical,
which I think works OK). Do you expect a user to be able to guess what
languages have the most complete Debian translations? :-)
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