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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You can use localectl to change the locale on Fedora. Here's what you need to do:

  • See if you have Japanese locale installed. Something like ja_JP.UTF-8 should be in the output of localectl list-locales.
  • If it's not, you should install it using the following command: sudo dnf install langpacks-ja (I'm not 100 % sure about this and I don't have a Fedora system to test it on.)
  • Set the locale: sudo localectl set-locale LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
  • Reboot your system. Everything should be in Japanese now.

This will (probably) change everything to Japanese – texts in menus, error messages in the terminal, and also the font rendering. This answer on Stack Overflow suggests to do something with your fonts.conf. This way your UI would be in English (or your preferred language) and kanji would render as the Japanese variants.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A. I don't know much about CJK fonts. I'm just spitballing. I am also half asleep.

B. It depends where the font is displayed. As you probably know, different Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters, which share history and look similar, share one unicode codepoint, see this Wikipedia article. Which specific glyph is shown is decided by some variable that specifies in what language the text is written:

  • If the text is somewhere in the GUI (the title bar, the panel, some menu), it is probably decided by your default language and locale. This can be changed somewhere in settings. Changing this would also probably change everything to Japanese.
  • If the text is somewhere on the web, this is decided by the lang parameter of the website. You can't change this easily.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not Czech. I'd say it's Croatian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, it shouldn't. Unfortunately, the developers of GTK thrived on changes to the API during the GTK3 era. I don't know why Go devs don't (and I am indeed very glad that they don't). Perhaps it's because of the different structures of the development teams or perhaps because GTK has more hazy goals. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The GTK3 port has been in the making for a very long time. Long before anyone even mentioned GTK4. Porting an application to a different GUI toolkit is a lot of work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How is Nushell? Is it stable?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
  1. Keep up the good work. Your project reminds me of small "old school" distros from the noughties and I love the vibe!
  2. I get the aim at "regular" people. I'd wager there's an interest for a somewhat polished tiling experience; perhaps not among regular people, but among the a bit experienced (and a bit lazy) crowd of Linux users, which is definitely numerous.

Anyway, I'm just spitballing. Good luck with your project!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's basically one click in VS Code. It's more clicks in Sublime. 🤷‍♂️ Turning Sublime to a full blown IDE for a bunch of different programming languages takes work and I'm lazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have my eye on Regolith. Sadly it seems to be only available on Ubuntu and its derivatives, because they rely on apt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

8 DEs aren't enough for you?

They are, but a man can dream. And thanks for the tip!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It breaks some system keyboard shortcuts

And so does Sublime Text: CTRL+SHIFT+U for inserting Unicode characters doesn't work in it. :(

I recently switched from ST4 to VS Code (Codium actually) because of this and because it's easier to set up a Python debugger.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Cool concept. I really appreciate the "independence" from the project after the installation. It would be cool, if the author preconfigured some less common DE/WM alongside the ones they package now. I yearn for a distro with a preconfigured tiling WM, so I wouldn't have to use my half broken i3wm setup.

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