[dev] Re: [cvs] cvs commit: imp login.php redirect.php horde/lib Lang.php

[Jon Parise]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:37:49PM +0100, Jan Schneider wrote:

> > >   After login
> > >   1) The user's preference
> > >   2) The preference's default value
> > >   3) The language selected on the login screen
> > >   4) The browser's accept-language header
> > >   5) The default value in $nls
> >    
> > Shouldn't 2 and 3 be switched, allowing the user to override the
> > default?
> 
> Hm, makes sense. On the other hand, administrators can now set the default 
> value in prefs.php empty. But your suggestions sounds less complicated and 
> expectable from the user's view.
 
Do you think the language selection widget on the login screen
should default to the system default (i.e. the preference
default) or the value derived from the user's browser?

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Subject: Re: [dev] Re: [cvs] cvs commit: imp login.php redirect.php horde/lib Lang.php

Zitat von Jon Parise <jon@horde.org>:

> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:37:49PM +0100, Jan Schneider wrote:
> 
> > > >   After login
> > > >   1) The user's preference
> > > >   2) The preference's default value
> > > >   3) The language selected on the login screen
> > > >   4) The browser's accept-language header
> > > >   5) The default value in $nls
> > >    
> > > Shouldn't 2 and 3 be switched, allowing the user to override the
> > > default?
> > 
> > Hm, makes sense. On the other hand, administrators can now set the
> default 
> > value in prefs.php empty. But your suggestions sounds less complicated
> and 
> > expectable from the user's view.
>  
> Do you think the language selection widget on the login screen
> should default to the system default (i.e. the preference
> default) or the value derived from the user's browser?

I think (and that's how I changed it) it should default to nothing, but the 
language used on the login screen should be taken from the browser.

Jan.

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