Bug 28442

Summary:	download button for language
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Patrick Seher <patrick>
Component:	kcm_language	Assignee:	Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	hein, jlayt, martin.sandsmark, ricardo_0617
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Patrick Seher 2001-07-08 10:29:00 UTC

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Package:           kcmlocale
Version:           2.0 (using KDE 2.2.0 beta1)
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
OS:                Linux (i586) release 2.4.4-4GB
OS/Compiler notes: 

hello!

what about a routine that allows to download the selected language with a button "download languages".

E.g.: 
You choose language German but don't have installed the files for it. So you could click on the button "download german language".
A the next KDE would download the languages file and execute a program like kpackages to install it.

it would be a nice way to install other languages ;o)



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Comment 1 Hans Petter Bieker 2002-11-29 20:40:15 UTC

I agree that it would be nice, and I have been thinking about it myself. 
 
But there are a few problems involved as I see it: 
* KDE Base would have to support a way to install packages 
* KDE would have to know where to get the packages 
* Installing packages normally require root access. 
 
One way to solve the problems above would be to install the translations for 
the user only in $HOME/.kde/share, but that isn't very nice.

Comment 2 John Layt 2010-08-07 21:39:06 UTC

Lubos at openSuse is currently investigating a way to do this, stay tuned :-)

Comment 3 John Layt 2010-08-07 21:49:41 UTC

*** Bug 159594 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Martin Sandsmark 2014-01-02 16:36:53 UTC

This should be possible to implement using the packagekit stuff. I'll look into it once I get a framework based setup working.

I hope you don't mind me stealing this, John. :-)

Comment 5 John Layt 2014-01-02 17:11:27 UTC

Feel free :-)  I seem to recall leaving some stubs in the code for doing this?  I also think Kubuntu has implemented this, so you may want to have a look at their patches

Comment 6 Eike Hein 2018-05-17 10:35:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 366328 ***