Proposal: Add Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) UI support to aw-webui

[9ood]

Hi ActivityWatch maintainers,

I would like to contribute Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) support for the ActivityWatch web UI.

I checked the current UI and it looks like aw-webui does not yet have a full i18n/localization structure in place, so this may involve two parts:

1. adding a basic internationalization mechanism to the frontend
2. translating the visible UI strings to Simplified Chinese

Before starting, I wanted to confirm a few things:

• Would you welcome a contribution for Simplified Chinese support?
• Is aw-webui the correct repository for this work?
• Do you have a preferred approach for introducing i18n in the Vue frontend?
• Would you prefer the work to be split into smaller PRs, for example:
  • PR 1: add i18n infrastructure
  • PR 2: add zh-CN translations

I am new to open source contribution, but I am willing to do the work and iterate based on feedback.

I think Chinese localization could help lower the barrier for Chinese-speaking users and make ActivityWatch easier to adopt.

Thanks for your time.

[BelKed]

Related issues:

• Implement i18n #2
• Proposal: Add Chinese (zh-CN) documentation / README translation activitywatch#1200
• Will it support other languages such as Chinese 会支持其他语言比如中文吗 activitywatch#915