Multilingual menus

Hi.

I've not yet taken a look at your code, but I would like to share with you the solution
that I have implemented in localizer.
Perhaps it could be of some inspiration for a better solution.

I've treated menu items as user provided strings and translated them through
the translation engine that I have implemented.
Then the translation is implemented at runtime through the hook menu.
If you are interested, you can read the code of the module localizermenu, method localizermenu_translate_all.

IMHO, perhaps is not necessary adding a language field to the menu table.
Adding a language filed, it means doubling the menu items, am I wrong ?

About interface translation, I have attached a screenshot of my current implementation.

The top interface is for English (the website's main language) , the bottom for Italian.
In Italian version you can translate only the title and description fields, the other fields
are disabled.
The top language switching combobox is separated for the content or user interface language
and it is used only for administration.

The same interface is used for translating taxonomy and variables.
For variables based forms I have implemented a generic translation interface
that can be used anywhere.

Hope this helps.

Bye

Roberto

Moving to Drupal 7 queue. We don't have a separate code repository now, so no reason to have this separated as if someone is working on it.

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The modern solution for this is #916388: Convert menu links into entities. This is won't fix as-is.