Serg-Norseman / GEDKeeper

GEDKeeper - program for work with personal genealogical database
https://gedkeeper.net/
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Default fallback help language #536

Closed fullben closed 4 months ago

fullben commented 4 months ago

This is more of a suggestion than an actual issue. I think it would be great to have a default fallback language for the application help option, if the help is not available in the currently selected application language.

Is Behavior

Currently, if I'm trying to access the application help while having configured the app to display German UI, I get an English error message, telling me that the help is not available.

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So to access the help, I change the application language back to English, select the help option again, and read up on whatever I'm trying to figure out.

Desired Behavior

I think a different behavior would make sense here. My personal suggestion would be to either be redirected to the help contents with a default language, or get some sort of prompt for making a selection from a list of available help texts.

Context

I usually use my software with English UI text, but since I am sharing and discussing the findings I'm collecting with GEDKeeper with German natives that often do not speak English too well, I prefer to keep the software's UI in German. This ensures that it is not unnecessarily difficult for those people to understand the data I have collected.