When you change themes, you don't have to restart Moz for the changes to take effect. You shouldn't have to do this for UI language change either (yes, I know you probably change themes more often than you change UI language). To use a new langauge, the user has to: 1 Click the langpack.xpi file to install it 2 Restart Mozilla for the new language pack to become available in the Language and Web Content menu 3 Choose new language 4 Restart Mozilla Only 1 should be necessary, and *two* restarts should at least *not* be necessary.

Reassigned to ftang.

reassign to tao. Do we plan to do this in the short term ?

I assume this bug has actually be splitted into two parts for every of the current restarts we need. This bug itself should IMHO deal with the second restart, which will be eventually harder to resolve (after selecting different locale). I assume this because the beginning of the original report is comparing with skin switching, and this should be for the restart at locale _switching_ then. I opened a second bug for the "first" restart (at locale _installing_) which should be easier to resolve. see bug 66909.

It appears that installing the langpack does not select it for the user's profile. I'll take a look!

Changed QA contact to andreasb@netscape.com.

Tao, which part(s) of the original report do this patches address? I assume the first restart could go away with that (the one I filed bug 66909 for), right? What about the second one?

sr=waterson

Hi, Robert: Yes, the first part: "View|Set Region/Content" will be refreshed with the new langpack so users can select it and restart to see the effect.

OK, nice. This is a very welcome step... Perhaps we should clear up what bug is for what issue (and/or file new bugs for the remaining part) after the patch is checked in...

changing qa contact to jonrubin@netscape.com.

Are you still shooting for 0.9 on this? If so please email drivers@mozilla.org with a status on you progress. If not please retarget against a later Milestone. Thanks.

pending review on the proposed patch...

push to 0.91. nominated for nsbeta1

r=ssu for the chrome attribute changes. pending on r= on the "View" menu template.

r=jbetak. thx!

part 1 checked in. "View" menu refreshing still needs the part 2.

part2 checked in; you should be able to see the "View" menu refreshed after langpack installation. You still need to restart Mozilla after switching the langpack, though. (this part is more complicate and addressed in 62174) Close this bug.

Reopening this, as there is inconsistency in functionality. Tested this on WinMe-Ja using 2001-06-18-07-trunk, with the following results: 1) After downloading and installing Japanese or German region pack, neither appeared as a selection in the View menu until after restarting. 2) After selecting both the German language and region packs at the same time for download and install, neither appeared in the View menu until after restarting. 3) After selecting the Japan or German language packs separately for download and install, they appeared in the View menu without a restart. Note: All language and region packs always successfully appeared in the View menu after restarting the browser.

Marking as nsBranch, as I think this might be a regression. Changing TM = M0.9.2, because we are past M0.9.1.

Is tao going to fix this? Is he back from sabbatical?

CC msanz and bobj, maybe they can answer who will fix Tao's bugs while he is out.

cc nhotta Naoki, please see my comments from 06-21 about the current problems I've seen.

pushing out. 0.9.2 is done. (querying for this string will get you the list of the 0.9.2 bugs I moved to 0.9.3)

Nominating for TM0.9.4. Vishy/Msanz - We need to identify the engineering team who is repsonsbile for fixing this one.

Doesn't look like this is getting fixed before the freeze tomorrow night. Pushing out a milestone per Jaime. Please correct if I'm mistaken.

"View|Set Language|Region>" is refreshed when I download and install Japanese langpack but not Japan region pack. Seems to me the UI refreshing is not reliable.

Let's push this to 0.9.5 since users can do the switch from the Pref dialog.

mass change, switching qa contact from jonrubin to ruixu.

nsbranch- as per Tao's milestone

observation in installing new langpack/region packs 1. region pack: a. "Pref|Appearance|Content Packs" shows new packs right after installation. b. "View|Set Language/Region >" submenu does not show new packs if the submenu was opened before the installation. In new Browser window, the new packs always appear in the sub-menu. 2. language pack: a. "Pref|Appearance", the "Language" dropdown list always shows new packs. b. "View|Set Language/Region >": same behavior with region packs.

change summary field to reflect findings.

Based upon the observations noted in Tao's comment, do we need to update the instructions on the download page or in any dialogs?

reassign to new owner ->dbragg

nominating ...

Fixed when 91721 was checked in.

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