Thoughts on language select.

[WiseQ]

I am currently working on a new theme for the administration backend. While working on this theme I got an idea about the login page.
I think it would be better to cut the language select from the login page, and instead introduce a global system setting for languages in "Site Admin"->"System Preferences".
This way, the login box would look cleaner (less options = good), and it would be possible to set a more appropriate default language for non english sites (Currently the login page will always be presented in english). If the user wants another language than the default one, then he or she can of course change this in the preferences after logging in.

As an extra idea, I can imagine that it would be useful to set the system wide default language at the first step in the installer (You can of course change it later in "Site Admin"->"System Preferences"). This way the whole installation procedure could be done in the selected language.

Please give me some feedback about what you think of these ideas.

[dfritschy]

I agree that the language selection should be removed from the login page.
The language used for the administration backend should be a user property and selected automatically upon login.
The language defined for the admin user would be the system language used for the login page.