Hello, i noticed that Gnome Software on the computer has an header that say (in the screenshot case) “this app will appear in american english” and then a button that asks you to contribute to the translation and redirects you to the app github (or whatever)
Agreed, although the way it works in GNOME isn’t perfect. It often wrongly claims applications will display in English despite a translation being available and working once installed. I think it’s based on some percentage of strings being translated.
Well, the banner could show how much (in percentage) of the app has been translated to the system language. That way it would be relevant to every users preference.
Yes, I understand it would require manual work from the maintainer, or some kind of a monster API to connect to all the different ways to implement translations in the source tree. And neither of these is a desirable way to handle things.