[fpc-pascal] SysLocale.PriLangID vs Mac OS X localization

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Jonas Maebe wrote:

> 
> On 23 Jun 2008, at 18:00, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> >
> > >On 23 Jun 2008, at 10:41, Bent Normann Olsen wrote:
> > >
> > > >Yup, I know, but it's a 1-1 port from Win32 to Mac,
> > >
> > >That's really a very bad idea, unless you are only interested in supporting
> > >Windows users switching to a Mac (although even for them the application
> > >will
> > >feel weird after a while).
> >
> >So what do Mac users do with all these web-applications and "web 2.0" with
> >their other GUI rules ?
> 
> Is it really that hard to imagine that an application which uses the
> conventions of a different platform is unnecessarily hard and annoying to use?

Well, I can imagine being a women, so: No, it's not hard.

But for a company that has 'Think different' as a motto the
insistence on adherence to the rules is ironic :-)

Secondly, all things you mention apply to advanced users only,
and I dare say to developers only:

I invite you to visit ALL our customers. Most of them don't even
understand what a folder is. They *really* don't care about the
rules you mention. Most of them would even be far more happy with
a plain DOS application.

As our support staff says:
The best application has just 1 screen and 1 button: 'Click here',
which, when clicked, scans the user's brain and does what (s)he wants.
Some users will even manage to mess that up.

So: nice theory, but in practice: forget about it, it's not that
important. We have other problems to worry about.

Michael.