"locales" directory creation

[suckura]

After deletion of the "locales" directory NW silently create it again but newer fills it with some content. Is there any sense to have empty "locales" directory? If no, maybe just not create it if no exist.

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[nadimkobeissi]

👍, what's the reasoning behind this directory?

[micc83]

Same question. What is it the purpose of this folder?

[skibulk]

+1 can this be fixed?

[ghost]

+1 can this be fixed?

[Skhmt]

+1 please fix

[baconbrad]

If you are using 0.12.X you can perform a workaround. To do this delete the locales directory completely. Then add this code to run when your app runs. This isn't usable on 0.13.0 because the locales directory is required by nw.js.

var fs = require('fs');
var path = require("path").dirname(process.execPath);
fs.rmdir(path + '/locales');

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[Christywl]

locales folder is required by nwjs now, I thinks this issue can be closed. @rogerwang

[skylarmt]

The locales folder uses over 30MB of space, does NW.js really need all the different language files? Is there any actual user-visible text that depends on this data, or is it safe to only include en_US or something?

[djcanard]

Is there clean a way to exclude or include only some locales?
Is it safe to include only some locales manually?

[rogerwang]

You can remove languages files that are not needed.