[SailfishDevel] Running application with customized environment using invoker

[Dmitriy Purgin]

Hi,

thanks for reply!

I did a quick test on the emulator, it does work without invoker, but the
app just uses system locale if launched via invoker. I think it has
something to do with Qt libraries being already preloaded when using
booster.

I guess my question is wrong in its formulation. Actually issuing the
following command:

$ LANG=ru_RU invoker --type=silica-qt5 appbin

does not  change the app locale, it behaves as if there were no LANG=ru_RU
at all. So does QLocale::setDefault().

I think my question should be: "Is there any way to change app locale if
using invoker?"

Motivation for that is to allow an end-user to use application in a
language that may differ from the one of OS. I do load in-app strings via
Qt translation system but formatting facilities, remorse popups and dialog
headers remain in OS language which brings a bit of incosistency to app
look and feel. This inconsistency is solved by changing locale on
per-application basis but apparently invoker seems to be an obstacle for
that.

Cheers
Dmitriy Purgin

2015-04-22 17:44 GMT+06:00 Pekka Vuorela <pekka.vuorela at jolla.com>:

> ke, 2015-04-22 kello 14:23 +0600, Dmitriy Purgin kirjoitti:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to make a .desktop file that launches an application with
> > customized LANG environment variable. I came up with the
> > following .desktop file (irrelevant entries removed):
> >
> >
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Type=Application
> > X-Nemo-Application-Type=no-invoker
> > Exec=app-launcher.sh
>
> Alternatively, would it be enough doing setenv() as first thing in the
> application side?
>
>
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