Bug 46201

Summary:	Choose extra languages in Windows Installer typical installation - Spanish and others
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Toni Hermoso Pulido <toniher>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bfo.bugmail, gatoken, ivarela, jesus, joan, meixome, sasha.libreoffice, timar74
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.5.0 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows (All)
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Description Toni Hermoso Pulido 2012-02-16 16:15:18 UTC

LibO 3.5 Windows installer chooses the languages to be installed from the OS set up locale during a typical installation.

This is a problem for users with a Windows language pack version, which rarely have a proper language configuration (e.g. Catalan), or those without a localized Windows version (e.g. Asturian)

As an improvement, I would suggest to include several languages in the installing process when a Windows dominant language (e.g. Spanish vs. Catalan or Asturian) is normally prevailing in a Windows environment.
That way, most of the potentially affected users can more easily switch to other languages without having to find out how to do this from a custom installation.

This means that, once a Spanish (or es-ES) OS system is detected, other languages would be installed (ast, ca, ca-XV, eu, gl, oc) as well.

I imagine this could be applied to other cases.

Comment 1 Toni Hermoso Pulido 2012-02-16 23:38:38 UTC

Note: Here I don't mean the language of the installer UI, but the languages that will be available to be used from the LibO UI once the application is installed (via options).

Comment 2 sasha.libreoffice 2012-05-21 06:32:02 UTC

Thanks for new idea
Some languages have very much variants. For example Spanish used in almost all America, Russian in all ExUSSR and English in half of world.

Comment 3 retired 2013-07-17 10:24:32 UTC

Including more languages in the installer won't happen afaik. I talked to some devs about this and LO will stick to the current structure.

So setting to WONTFIX.

If any dev disagrees please chime in and re-open this bug and feel free to set it to NEW in that case.