Since Aug 14, 2025, Krita Next AppImage fails to load translation if set to use the same locale as the system. For instance, with my Linux set to American English, I can load all translations without issues. However, switching to Japanese causes Krita to fail loading the Japanese translation. This pattern is consistent for French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, etc. It's worth noting that some strings translated directly by Qt still appear correctly, such as in the File Type droplist. The Windows nightlies are so far unaffected. So I think it is a AppImage related packaging issue. This exact issue happened before, but I can't recall how we solved it. Additionally, even before this issue arose, Krita was missing some translations across all languages—like the "Configure Language..." entry in the Settings menu and parts of the Help menu. Which also happened before perhaps dues to master/current branches mismatch. Last unaffected: krita-5.3.0-prealpha-b1ec16ebb9-x86_64.AppImage Tested with: krita-5.3.0-prealpha-10500870e8-x86_64.AppImage
See also https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/issues/17
Seems to have been fixed in 2025-09-02 (krita-5.3.0-prealpha-57121616e6-x86_64.AppImage)
Now the translation loading issue has been fixed, but there are a few strings still in English: Main menu: File -> Open Recent Settings -> Configure Language About -> Krita Handbook About -> Report Bug About -> About Krita About -> About KDE Perhaps caused by the night next builds being 5.3, the master is 6.0, and we updated kxmlgui in Krita?