[horde] Language selection on the login screen

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at horde.org>:

> Hi!
>
> Yesterday a few of the devs discussed the language selection on the  
> login screen. The bottom line was that this selection only takes  
> effect if the user did not set the language in the preferences.
>
> I also received a short tweet by someone wondering about the  
> language selection on demo.horde.org. He selected "English" and got  
> French text.
>
> Now I thought that it makes sense to lock the "language" preference  
> on demo.horde.org so that the login selection always holds. But when  
> I do that the language selection is no longer displayed on the login  
> screen.
>
> Is there another workaround?

Beside resetting the pref on the demo server from time to time, no.

> And usability-wise I still wonder if it makes any sense to  
> prominently place a language selection on the first screen the user  
> sees if this has no effect whatsoever in case the user set his  
> language preference. Wouldn't it make more sense to offer the  
> language selection as a login task in case it has not been set yet?

I don't think that makes sense, because for most people the default  
selection on the login screen is just fine, and adding another step  
during login is rather annoying. This is only a problem if several  
users with different languages share the same account. Which should  
not happen in any real world scenario but demo servers.

Jan.

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