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I have kubuntu 12.04 (KDE 4.8.2). The system language is spanish (everything is displayed in spanish here) and I have installed Inkscape from Synaptic.
I have already tried going to File > Inkscape Preferences... > Interface > Language. At first it was in "System Default" (which should be spanish) so I changed it to "Spanish" with no success.
I already searched in the forum and googled a while, but I found nothing of use.
Any ideas?
[SOLVED] Can't change interface langugage
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tengounnombre
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[SOLVED] Can't change interface langugage
Last edited by tengounnombre on Wed May 29, 2013 5:01 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Can't change interface langugage
Hi and welcome to the InkscapeForum!
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Might I suggest renaming the settings folder and restarting Inkscape to see if that resolves the issue.
Start the file browser and head to your /home folder. Expose all hidden files and locate the .inkscape folder. Rename it to .inkscape-OLD. Now restart Inkscape. A new .inkscape folder should appear with a fresh set of settings. Should that not fix the language, you may restore your system by shutting Inkscape down, removing .inkscape and renaming .inkscape-OLD to .inkscape.
Let us know if Inkscape itself has a new language interface.
[insert welcome sign here]
Might I suggest renaming the settings folder and restarting Inkscape to see if that resolves the issue.
Start the file browser and head to your /home folder. Expose all hidden files and locate the .inkscape folder. Rename it to .inkscape-OLD. Now restart Inkscape. A new .inkscape folder should appear with a fresh set of settings. Should that not fix the language, you may restore your system by shutting Inkscape down, removing .inkscape and renaming .inkscape-OLD to .inkscape.
Let us know if Inkscape itself has a new language interface.
Re: Can't change interface langugage
Off topic:
BobSongs wrote:Start the file browser and head to your /home folder. Expose all hidden files and locate the .inkscape folder.
Please do note that since the release of Inkscape 0.47 in 2009 [*], the preferences are saved in '$HOME/.config/inkscape' (in accordance with the XDG Base Directory Specification).
Only older Inkscape versions (<= 0.46) still use the preferences stored in the old location '$HOME/.inkscape'.
Ubuntu 12.04 does offer rather recent Inkscape 0.48.3.1.
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[*] See also: Release notes 0.47 > Preferences
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tengounnombre
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Re: Can't change interface langugage
Thanks for the reply.
I tried renaming the folder, it didn't solve the problem.
Like ~suv said the folder was actually inside /.config. I changed it there.
I tried renaming the folder, it didn't solve the problem.
Like ~suv said the folder was actually inside /.config. I changed it there.
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tengounnombre
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Re: Can't change interface langugage
I think I found a solution. According to this post (http://blueleaflinux.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/gimp-e-inkscape-en-espanol-en-kde.html in spanish) there seems to be a problem due to inkscape looking for language preferences in gnome (in spite of having installed kde language pack).
Installing the gnome language pack (sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-es) solved the problem.
I don't really know if it's the best solution, but is the only one I found.
Anyway, thanks to BobSongs and ~suv for the help.
Installing the gnome language pack (sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-es) solved the problem.
I don't really know if it's the best solution, but is the only one I found.
Anyway, thanks to BobSongs and ~suv for the help.
Re: Can't change interface langugage
tengounnombre wrote:I don't really know if it's the best solution, but is the only one I found.
Anyway, thanks to BobSongs and ~suv for the help.
If it works? Then it's a good solution! Also, thank you for posting what you found. This will be of immense value for us if such a question is asked again.Peace!