[tor-bugs] #12967 [Tor Launcher]: Provide language selection dialog

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#12967: Provide language selection dialog
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     Reporter:  mikeperry     |      Owner:  brade
         Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor Launcher  |    Version:
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Comment (by intrigeri):

 Replying to [comment:3 mikeperry]:
 > Though I assume that Tails would not be using our alpha series.

 Right.

 > Would tails be interested in using a separate hardened (but ~2X slower
 and 2X more memory) stable series?

 Most likely yes. The hardening is supposed to land into stable at some
 point anyway, so we'll have to cope with the slowness and increased memory
 usage at some point anyway, right? If so, then dealing with it earlier is
 not necessarily a problem for us.

 > I don't think this language selection dialog should display in our
 normal stable series.

 OK. But I wonder why a dialog is actually needed, as opposed to simply
 respect the OS' default locales settings, and optionally offering a way
 (command-line switch?) to run Tor Browser with a different language.

 > I think per-language downloads is the right thing to do for that. But
 you could always turn it on and add in more langpacks.

 For the Tails usecase, I think the best thing would be:

 * have a stable tarball with all laguage packs in (hardened or not);
 * don't use the language selection dialog;
 * respect the OS' locales settings (that the user has chosen in Tails
 Greeter).

 Note that we still haven't decided whether we'll try to switch to the Tor
 Browser binaries for Tails 1.2 (October 14). It's now a bit late to start
 working on it, but who knows. It partly depends on how much work we have
 to do to have a Tor Browser tarball that suits our needs (as described
 above). Of course, I'm aware that the TBB team is even more swamped than
 usual this month, "thanks" to the migration to FF31 ESR, so it mostly
 depends on how much time we (Tails folks) can put into adapting the TBB
 build system for our needs.

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