Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.I realize that work on the 7.x version is very early. I just wanted to mention this in case it's -supposed to be working- at this point. The Language switcher (User interface text) block does not appear after being assigned to a region. Languages are configured (though the Selection/Detection page doesn't seem to have anything that would apply to the switching block).
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #13 | i18n_language_switcher-1023208-13.patch | 1.2 KB | plach |
| #12 | i18n_language_switcher-1023208-12.patch | 1.58 KB | plach |
Comments
Comment #1
feneur CreditAttribution: feneur commentedI had the same issue before I enabled selection on the /admin/config/regional/language/configure (Administration » Configuration » Regional and language » Languages, and then the Detection and Selection tab) page, I think it was the "User" detection method, but I enabled them all so I'm not 100% sure.
Comment #2
feneur CreditAttribution: feneur commentedComment #3
plachThe language swicther appears only if one enables a language detection method that actually alters links, hence allowing to switch language (in core only URL and Session). User method instead does not provide a way to switch language since it's a fixed value.
You may want to enable User method on top of the URL one to be able to switch language if a user has not specified a language preference or has not logged in.
Does this solve your issues?
Comment #4
j. ayen green CreditAttribution: j. ayen green commentedYes, that did it. Thanks!
Comment #5
detran CreditAttribution: detran commentedIt took me a day before I found your post and set it to work properly!! Your post is quite helpful!
Comment #6
plachComment #7
plachAs we can see here, D7 language switcher has a big UX problem, which was already present in D6: one can enable the language switcher block without performing the needed language negotiation settings. In this case the language switcher won't appear.
Since this cannot be fixed in core, I think we could introduce a massage warning the user that she needs to configure language negotiation to have the language switcher actually displayed.
Comment #8
yoroy CreditAttribution: yoroy commentedSubscribe. Use the magic 'usability' tag to get this on the ux team radar :)
Comment #9
plachRelated issue: #729146: Language switcher block (User interface text language detection) doesn't appear.
Comment #10
plachAnoher one: #1066044: Language switcher block does not show up. We must fix this.
Comment #11
plachAgain: #1078880: D7, block Language switcher (User interface text) doesn't appear.
Comment #12
plachHere is a patch.
Comment #13
plachThe previous patch was flawed: the warning message was showed even when changing the block region. The current one only shows it when enabling the block.
Comment #14
Jose Reyero CreditAttribution: Jose Reyero commentedOk, committed into i18n.
However I think this should be an issue for Drupal core, but anyway, in the meanwhile, we'll save some headaches.
Comment #15
plach#1082902: Improve language switcher usability
Thanks :)
Comment #18
giupenni CreditAttribution: giupenni commentedThe problem persists.
7.x-1.11 version.
Comment #19
giupenni CreditAttribution: giupenni commented