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Hi forum,

I'm facing a very strange behaviour with Audacity User Interface when changing the language in the settings .


I am using Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, but also with 17.2 it is the same. System Language is German
I have actually installed the daily version, but having the same using the distribution release (only tested on 17.1).

Now the problem: I installed audacity and use it with Standard Settings and everything is working fine. Even if I change language in audacity to English it works.

But if I change the language of the Linux-User in the System Settings of Linux Mint and restart, audacity will open but will not show any buttons in the toolbar - they are all empty. Changing the Users's language back to German all works fine again - in all languages.

I've googled and searched in the forum, but did not find that someone had the same problem so far.

Please give me advice how to fix it - I need it for a friend who is using my computer but doesn't speak german.

Any help will be appreciated, thanx.

Hello Community,

Update: It seems that only the Icons in the toolbar are missing, the mouse over shows the tooltips, but the Icon doesn't show up.

Seems to be a "bug" in the software itself.

Is it this problem? http://zanussi.combell.org/audacity_sla ... -14.1.html

steve wrote:Is it this problem? http://zanussi.combell.org/audacity_sla ... -14.1.html

Hi Steve,
no, the toolbars are grey and there are no frames of the buttons visible. also there is no error message at all.

markus

mark USC Haller wrote: Hi Steve,
no, the toolbars are grey and there are no frames of the buttons visible. also there is no error message at all.

markus

Hi,
I made a screenshot of the different settings,

in the upper area you everything looks alright,
in the screenshot below you can see what it looks like in other system language.

Markus

Audacity does not work properly with right-aligned GUI. Note the left-aligned text in Device Toolbar when you have left-aligned system language, but right-aligned when Arabic is system language.


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:Audacity does not work properly with right-aligned GUI. Note the left-aligned text in Device Toolbar when you have left-aligned system language, but right-aligned when Arabic is system language.


Gale

Hi Gale,
thänk you. Is it possible to change the alignment in configuration?

Thanks Markus

mark USC Haller wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:Audacity does not work properly with right-aligned GUI. Note the left-aligned text in Device Toolbar when you have left-aligned system language, but right-aligned when Arabic is system language.


Gale

Hi Gale,
thänk you. Is it possible to change the alignment in configuration?

I doubt it - ask here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/index.php. Audacity has no relevant settings.

Gale

Gale Andrews wrote: I doubt it - ask here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/index.php. Audacity has no relevant settings.

Gale

OK,
that means there is an arabic translation, but you cannot use it if your OS is also arabic.
Sounds strange to me, but anyway - thank you for your efforts.
Markus

mark USC Haller wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote: I doubt it - ask here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/index.php. Audacity has no relevant settings.

Gale

OK,
that means there is an arabic translation, but you cannot use it if your OS is also arabic.

Most languages are left to right. Arabic is right to left.

Proper right to left support has not been implemented yet in Audacity. This is probably a huge task. Progress dialogues move backwards. Waveforms are drawn backwards. And so on.


Gale