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zhovner / magic-setup-assistant

Fake macOS Setup Assistant.app based on Electron framework
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Question: countries or languages? #16

Open diastremskii opened 7 years ago

diastremskii commented 7 years ago

In original setup assistant selector in first tab contains countries, however, fake version contains languages. Should changing language also change language of other text on a page? Or there should be countries like in original? 🤔

zhovner commented 7 years ago

The original setup assistant that launched for the real first time shows animated system language selection. You can see it on this video at 0:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G-3me2VTGo&t=57s

And the second window is the country selection. But if you run setup assistant for the second time, it shows only country selection. So i'm not sure do we need to implement the first animated window or just stay with country map window and put language selection here. Btw this setup assistant changes in every version of MacOS and even experienced mac users do not remember how it looks. Also you can't figure out what version of macOS you have from the setup assistant, so for the user it can be just the new version which he had not seen yet. I think it must be the easiest wizard for robber and should have only one window with language selection without country selection.

Should changing language also change language of other text on a page?

Maybe the better way is to change the whole system language instantly when language is selected on the first window. I mean redraw current system text on the first window when another language is selected in menu.

diastremskii commented 7 years ago

Oh, ok.

Maybe the better way is to change the whole system language instantly when language selected on the first window. I mean redraw current system text on the first window when another language is selected in menu.

Yep, that was my thoughts too. Actually, implementing flying text shouldn't take long, but I understand what that's not a priority. Then the problem is: I have no idea where to get text strings for different languages. It seems what in resources folder they are somehow compiled (or encoded)

zhovner commented 7 years ago

I have no idea where to get text strings for different languages

At this moment we can create two language files for english and russian. I will extract other language files from original setup assistant soon.