See issue #611 and pull request #642.
The warning previously added in PR #612 for Manuskript users with Qt
5.11 / 5.12 has shown itself, in my opinion, to be overly annoying.
This is because the warning *always* displays on systems with the
affected Qt versions even though the crash is verified to happen with
the import feature only.
Additionally the process to upgrade to a newer version of PyQt / Qt is
not trivial for users who rely on pre-built packages and do not run
from source code.
Because the crash has been verified with the Import feature only, limit
the scope of the warning to the Import feature.
The user can configure a language for Manuskript in the dialog, but
before that setting is ever written to disk, there is the default
behaviour that tries to auto-detect the best language to show based on
the configuration of the device it is running on.
While doing my due diligence on issue #619, I realized we were relying
on the system locale, which is not necessarily equivalent to the
language the user is working with. Worse still: a user can have multiple
preferred languages for their user interface, and our old approach might
actually offer them the 'wrong' language. This patch fixes this.
It also refactors and comments things a little bit where necessary.
Issue #619 revealed an unintentional overlap between the auto-detection
of the locale and the implicit builtin English language, which resulted
in users being unable to select the builtin English language when their
device was configured with a locale that we happen to have a translation
for. The code has been rewritten to more clearly separate auto-detection
and the final fallback that is the builtin English translations.
Windows 10 has supported a 'dark theme' option for a while, and the fact
Manuskript is like looking into a bastion of bright white while using it
is bothersome to say the least.
Since this is a setting defined as the OS level, I believe this should
be something Manuskript automatically adjusts itself to match, thus the
lack of a configurable setting on the Manuskript end.
Some bugs are out of our reach to fix, but can still impact the user
considerably. Because losing progress always hurts, we want to make
the user aware of the risks before any tears are shed. (PR #612)
If manuskript is launched with its last argument set to "--console" an
interactive console opens up to help debug the application.
The IPython, qtconsole and matplotlib libraries must be installed for it
to work and they won't get imported unless the argument is passed to the app.
The message for failing to find and load a language translator was
misleading.
There is no problem running Manuskript with the default English
language (no translation loaded). The word **Warning** implied that
something was wrong with manuskript and could be confusing to users.
