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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1158141" data-attributes="member: 141969"><p>The solution using skins and themes looks as though it <em>ought</em> to be the way to provide this capability, but the support seems to be incomplete. The skin/theme files should be able to override anything in the "Language" folder, and indeed <em>any other defaults</em> set by MP during MP start up. But this does not seem to be supported. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>The solution of manually modifying the language xml file is OK, until I come to try out a different skin that includes its own modified language xml file, whereupon that modified language xml file will overwrite my modified language xml file. So if I decide to revert to my previous skin, that language xml file will persist, and my modifications will be gone. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> Or have I misunderstood how these changes would interact?</p><p></p><p>Be that as it may, I accept that there is no clean, properly-architected facility for this degree of customisation, and I must make do with the support that is actually available. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have not tried this, as I currently have only one disk partition with MP, and that is my "production" partition, which I do not want to perturb. (Running an install process that makes unknown changes to my system is too risky for my production system!)</p><p></p><p>-- from CyberSimian in the UK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1158141, member: 141969"] The solution using skins and themes looks as though it [i]ought[/i] to be the way to provide this capability, but the support seems to be incomplete. The skin/theme files should be able to override anything in the "Language" folder, and indeed [i]any other defaults[/i] set by MP during MP start up. But this does not seem to be supported. :( The solution of manually modifying the language xml file is OK, until I come to try out a different skin that includes its own modified language xml file, whereupon that modified language xml file will overwrite my modified language xml file. So if I decide to revert to my previous skin, that language xml file will persist, and my modifications will be gone. :( Or have I misunderstood how these changes would interact? Be that as it may, I accept that there is no clean, properly-architected facility for this degree of customisation, and I must make do with the support that is actually available. :( I have not tried this, as I currently have only one disk partition with MP, and that is my "production" partition, which I do not want to perturb. (Running an install process that makes unknown changes to my system is too risky for my production system!) -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]
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