As I explained on the Django users forums (
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/django-users/ZUxZHi_-5ug)
I'm spanish speaking so my users are too. Writing code in spanish isn't
pretty and with characters like "á" or "ñ" it's very difficult to name the
apps a way that would make sense to show on the Admin site.
That being said, I would like to propose a solution because all the tickets
and solutions I found won't work properly or are very outdated but I need
consent and guidance on how to approach it and with the internals of
django.contrib.admin and django.db.
My solution consists on a class on the __init__.py file on the module
(app), maybe it can be call AppConfig, where some metadata about the app
can be stored. Then, django.contrib.admin could pick it up to name the app
and maybe add a description or help_text and if it's not there it could
fall back to the previous method with app_label.
As an example:
__init__.py
class AppConfig:
verbose_name = 'app pretty name in any'
description = 'app short description'
I chose verbose_name to keep it consistent with fields and models but it
could be called however you want (even pretty_name). Maybe on the future
AppConfig could be used for other purposes but it has to start somewhere.
This way you could also use ugettext_lazy to translate the name and
description.
django.db.models won't need to be touched because they don't need the
"pretty name" but django.contrib.admin could try to pick up the AppConfig
to get the pretty name.
https://github.com/django/django/blob/1.4.2/django/contrib/admin/sites.py#L365
https://github.com/django/django/blob/1.4.2/django/contrib/admin/sites.py#L421
There it could return the verbose_name.title() or fall back to the
app_label.title() so then in the template there will be no need to change
anything (if we don't implement any other functionality yet).
What do you think? Please let me know if it's the best approach and if it
would be considered to merge it on the project. Mostly because non-english
speakers need some default solution to make the django admin work for their
sites but keeping the code in english.
Thank you in advance for your thoughts on this.
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