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i18n: tab titles, workspaces and Project/Timeline column headers reach the catalogs; web language follows ?lang= and the browser - #1842

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2 independent changes that help every language, one commit each, plus two follow-up commits from review (saved workspace names, Settings page titles).

i18n: tab titles, workspaces and column headers reach the catalogs

Some text drawn outside the menu bar stayed English in every language, including where the catalogs already had the row. (#1308 already did this for the context menus; this covers the rest.)

  • i18n::command_label(command, source): the menu bar's row for the same command (via menu_catalog), else the panel catalog's row, else the source. … also finds a menu row written ....
  • Dock tab titles (and the dragged tab's ghost), plus the Composition, Effect Controls and Properties tabs, use the window.panel rows every menu catalog already has. Layer and comp names stay verbatim.
  • Workspaces: the workspace bar, its overflow popup and the Workspaces menu use the window.workspace rows. Only the built-in workspaces (dock::WORKSPACES) are looked up; names the user saved stay verbatim even when one matches a catalog source (saved_workspace_names_stay_verbatim).
  • Project panel: the search hint, the "Select an item to see its details" hint, the column headers and the Columns menu go through tr().
  • Timeline: the column headers (Keys, Layer Name / Source Name, Comment, Mode, Track Matte, Parent & Link, In, Out, Duration, Stretch) and the Columns menu go through tr().
  • Catalog fix: the Simplified and Traditional Chinese rows for "Type" read 文字 (text, the Type tool). The string is the Camera Settings field and now the Project column, so they read 类型 / 類型. The Settings ▸ Type page, which also drew tr("Type"), now takes its title from the app.settings menu row the Settings submenu draws (文字), through i18n::settings_page_title; pages without a menu row keep the panel row (settings_page_titles_read_the_menu_row).
  • dock_ui.rs joins CONVERTED, so the literal scan covers it.

What does not change:

  • Command ids, automation ids and labels (app.auto keeps the English names), user names, catalogs other than the Chinese "Type" fix.
  • No rows are added: a language without a row for a newly routed string keeps the English, as before.

web: Match System follows ?lang= and the browser's languages

Match System (the default) stayed English in the browser build, which has no system-locale probe (#229, #292).

  • crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs: set_system_locales(tags). On wasm, system_language takes the first of those tags that supported() maps to a catalog; an English tag counts, so en-US, cs stays English. Otherwise English.
  • apps/effectcraft-web/src/app.rs: the page passes ?lang=<tag> from the address, if present, then navigator.languages, before the first frame. web-sys gains the Navigator feature.
  • docs/preferences.md describes it.

A language chosen in Settings still wins. It works for every catalogued language, for example ?lang=ja or a browser set to Czech.

What does not change: native builds (sys-locale), the preference format and every catalog.

Tests

  • Full cargo xtask ci on ad8db289 (this head, merged with main at ef74d829; Linux x86_64, stable Rust): fmt, clippy (--workspace --all-targets --release -D warnings), test, layers, assets and wasm all pass; 3,460 tests, 0 failed. Unticked because effectcraft-gpu's tests were excluded (--exclude effectcraft-gpu): on this machine (no GPU, software Vulkan) that test binary crashes with SIGSEGV on main 05955c08 too, so it says nothing about this change.

Commits:

  • a1a1a36a i18n: context menus, tab titles, workspaces and column headers reach the catalogs
  • 5539bb4a web: Match System follows ?lang= and the browser's languages
  • 7d03c0a1 Merge main; context menus use upstream's context_item (i18n: the layer and timeline context menus draw their labels in English #1308)
  • 60dab98e i18n: saved workspace names stay verbatim in the workspace menu (review)
  • ad8db289 i18n: Settings page titles read the menu bar's Settings rows (review)

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  • New Features
    • Browser builds using the system language setting now follow the ?lang= URL parameter first, then the browser’s preferred languages, and fall back to English if none are supported.
    • Localized workspace names, panel titles, settings headings, and labels across the Project and Timeline panels.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected the Simplified and Traditional Chinese translations of “Type.”

devius and others added 3 commits October 14, 2026 22:50
…the catalogs

Text drawn outside the menu bar stayed English in every language:

- i18n::command_label: the Timeline / Composition layer and property
  context menus now take the menu bar's row for the same command (… or
  ...), else the panel catalog's row; the layer menu's Effects submenu
  draws effect and category names through the effect catalog.
- The dock's tab titles (and the dragged tab), the Composition, Effect
  Controls and Properties tabs, and the workspace bar and menus use the
  window.panel and window.workspace rows every menu catalog already has.
- The Project panel's search hint, details hint and column headers, and
  the Timeline's column headers and Columns menu go through tr().

The Simplified and Traditional Chinese rows for "Type" read 文字 (text, the
Type tool); the string is the Camera Settings field and now the Project
column, so they read 类型 / 類型. dock_ui.rs joins the converted files. Languages without a row for a
string keep the English, as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YMTAbGNRxnMEzRvYnQGphF
(cherry picked from commit b335f1e)
Match System (the default) stayed English in the browser build, which has
no system-locale probe (storytold#229). The page now passes ?lang= from the address,
then navigator.languages, and Match System takes the first of them with a
catalog (an English tag counts), else English. A language chosen in
Settings still wins; native builds are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YMTAbGNRxnMEzRvYnQGphF
(cherry picked from commit 73c064e)
Upstream now translates the Timeline, Composition and Effect Controls context menus itself, so
command_label is left for the dock's tab titles and the workspace bar, on menu_catalog.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YMTAbGNRxnMEzRvYnQGphF
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Web builds now select a system locale from the lang query parameter and browser language list. The UI translates additional workspace, panel, settings, project, and timeline labels.

Changes: Localization behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Browser system locale selection
apps/effectcraft-web/Cargo.toml, apps/effectcraft-web/src/app.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs, docs/preferences.md
Web startup provides the query language and browser languages to locale initialization. WebAssembly selects the first supported locale and falls back to English. Tests cover locale selection, and the preferences documentation describes the browser behavior.
Localized workspace and panel labels
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/dock_ui.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/header.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/panels/viewers.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/panels/settings.rs
Command and settings-title lookups resolve localized labels. Workspace menus and tabs, dock panel labels, viewer titles, and settings page titles use the localized labels. Tests cover lookup fallbacks and preserve saved workspace names that are not built-in workspace names.
Localized panel controls
crates/ui-egui/src/panels/project.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/panels/timeline.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ui.rs
Project and timeline labels are translated before display. Japanese and Chinese catalogs update the translation for Type, and the converted-source fixture includes dock_ui.rs.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WebStartup
  participant Browser
  participant LocaleResolver
  WebStartup->>Browser: Read lang query and browser languages
  WebStartup->>LocaleResolver: Set system locale candidates
  LocaleResolver->>LocaleResolver: Select first supported locale
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to ad8db

Match System uses the URL language before browser preferences, while an explicit Settings choice remains in effect. The reviewed label changes preserve their catalog behavior, and no merge-blocking issue was identified.

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7d03c

The new browser input selects only supported UI translations. Explicit language preferences retain priority, and translated dock labels preserve panel identity and command behavior. No material security risk was identified in the reviewed changes.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A crafted lang parameter can influence Match System presentation within the current WebAssembly instance. The inspected new path resolves that input to supported catalog codes rather than deriving command targets, project identity, or authorization values from it.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Externally supplied locale strings are normalized to fixed supported languages with an English fallback. Explicit Settings language selection remains authoritative. Label lookup reads bundled catalogs and returns display strings without introducing command dispatch.
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Comment thread crates/ui-egui/src/header.rs Resolved
devius and others added 2 commits October 19, 2026 18:15
Only the built-in workspaces read the Window ▸ Workspace rows; a name the user
saved (\"Composition\", say) no longer falls through to the panel catalog.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YMTAbGNRxnMEzRvYnQGphF
The panel catalog's \"Type\" is the kind (Camera Settings, the Project column), so
the Type page drew as \"kind\" in Chinese; its title now comes from the
app.settings menu row (文字), as the Settings submenu draws it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YMTAbGNRxnMEzRvYnQGphF
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This is in integration batch #2257. The two zh-hans wording assertions now compare against the catalog rows, since main no longer tests one language's wording (#2244). The web Match System skips ja, zh and ka there, because the web build has no fonts for them; ?lang= still selects them.

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aiongg merged commit 8197568 into storytold:main Oct 23, 2026
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