An italian user is trying to work with FET under Linux. He wants to change the interface language but he is able to work only in english. FET refuses to use any other language.
Does anybody have a suggestion? How can I help him?
Thank you, Marco
I guess you already told him to close FET after choosing the language. He must restart FET. Only after restart the new language is used.
It's working on my Linux. Did that guy compile hisself the source or did he used a precompiled version (which one)?
If he restart FET, is there a warning that the new language is not loaded? In that case the translation files (stored in directory "translation") are not found. Maybe because he removed them or he copied the FET executable somewhere else.
FET searches for directory "/usr/share/fet/translations/" . If it exists, FET searches for fet_it.qm. If it does not find it there, it fails.
If directory "/usr/share/fet/translations/" does not exist, FET searches for directory "translations/" located in the same place as the executable "fet". If it cannot find "fet_it.qm" here, it fails.
Please tell me, did he compile FET or used a precompiled version (which one?)
I just modified the README, because it said that the translations must be in the same dir as executable, but in fact "translations" dir must be there.
Following this problem, I made a modification which says exactly the directories where FET searches for translations files.
I have made available a snapshot, 5.6.1-29-july
Link: http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/download/test/
The only change is that I made FET search also current directory for
translations (not only the translations dir, + old
usr/share/fet/translations).
Things you should test: that a particular language works, on Linux/Windows.