Bug 142000 - Need alternative to KeyID language pack for non-English languages
Summary: Need alternative to KeyID language pack for non-English languages
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Localization (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: l10n-Optimization
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Reported: 2021-04-30 15:31 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2024-12-27 19:45 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2021-04-30 15:31:26 UTC
The KeyID language pack shows you, for each piece of text, the English version and the KeyID. That's fine if you want to translate a _whole_ component, or menu or what-not that's not been translated before. But if you want to pick up on missing or mis-translated items, what you need to be able to do is map from your language to KeyID - and that pack does not let you do it.

What would work?

1. Ability to start two instances of LO at same time with different-language UIs. That way you could start an English+KeyID instance in parallel to your local-language instance and look up the item by navigating to the same place.

2. A KeyID variant of each language pack. So, now we have English+KeyID; we could have Castellano+KeyID, German+KeyID etc.

3. An extension (or built-in feature in dev builds?) which lets you lookup the KeyID of UI items you're interacting with, or hovering over etc. Perhaps when you press some key combination, or make a certain gesture etc.
Comment 1 Nelson Darling 2021-07-27 10:04:03 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 2 Lacota Greer 2021-07-29 15:01:30 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 3 diepiosm 2021-12-13 01:56:01 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 4 thomas masrden 2022-01-20 12:35:22 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 5 sophie 2023-05-12 12:42:43 UTC
Hi Eyal, installing multiple instances of LO is already possible, see:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel. Would that solve your issue?
Comment 6 Lars Jødal 2024-12-27 19:45:06 UTC
Hi Sophie / all

I see Eyal's point. If you are working with the translation of a user interface, then it would me more direct to see the ID in the user interface you are actually using, instead of having to see it next to the original English user interface.

Rather than doubling the number of language packs, it would be nice to have it as an (advanced) option for any user interface.