GnuCash Mac OS X issues: languages, splash screen

[John Ralls]

On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Kevin Reid wrote:

> I just installed GnuCash 2.4.0 in place of 2.2.9, and it seems to have a new problem with language selection:
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> My Mac OS X language preference was set to the preference ordering (jbo, en, de, es, ...). When I launched GnuCash it displayed its text in German, rather than English. Further testing seems to indicate that whenever the first language listed is an unusual one (presumably one which GnuCash does not have a translation for), GnuCash picks the first available language in the list *other than English*.
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> For now, I can set my language preference to have English first, but I would appreciate this being fixed.
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> I installed 2.4.0 mainly to make sure I wasn't reporting old bugs in the following unrelated report.
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> The splash screen has two problems on Mac OS X:
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> Firstly, it should not exist. Most Mac OS X applications do not display splash screens. The icon bouncing in the dock serves as an "application loading" indicator, which does not distract from doing other tasks until the application is ready.
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> Secondly, the splash screen displays on top of all other windows even if GnuCash is not itself the frontmost application. This severely interferes with doing other tasks while GnuCash loads, and I see no reason it should not be changed even if the splash screen continues to exist.
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> I am aware that there is a “Show splash screen” preference. Therefore, I am requesting that:
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>  1. The application icon should remain bouncing until GnuCash has
>     finished loading.
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>  2. The splash screen should be in the normal window layer rather than
>     being in front.
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>  3. The splash screen preference should default to off on Mac OS X.
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> I will be happy to file bug reports for these issues; but I wanted to first check if they are already known somewhere or there are obvious-to-you considerations I haven't noticed.
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Please do file a bug on the language-list problem, and thanks for diagnosing it so well.

The rest is an enhancement request. You can write one up in bugzilla, but I'm not going to promise that it won't get cancelled in a few months because I haven't made time to do anything about it. Including a patch would certainly improve the odds in  your favor. ;-)

Regards,
John Ralls