[Question]: Dashboard UI localization — i18n framework vs current hardcoded Chinese?

[OneMantou]

Hi maintainer,

I'm a LoopX user (and potential contributor) looking to localize the dashboard UI into Chinese. Before opening a PR, I want to confirm the preferred direction so I don't go against the project's intent.

What I observed (v0.4.3):

• dashboard-page.tsx already hardcodes Chinese for status/priority/connection mapping tables (e.g. user_or_controller: "用户 / 控制者", high: "高优先级", connected: "已连接").
• But many other surfaces are still English: frontstage-page.tsx (~3951 lines, the largest view), ui/* components, data/status.ts, router.tsx, etc.
• No i18n library is present; the only i18n touch is Intl.NumberFormat("en-US", …).
• No i18n/localization issue exists in the tracker; docs mentions of "localized" refer to data-layer labels, not a UI framework.

Question: Which do you prefer for community-contributed localization?

1. Introduce a proper i18n framework (e.g. react-i18next) with zh-CN + en catalogs and a language switcher — multilingual, more work, adds a dependency.
2. Continue the current inline-Chinese approach (extend dashboard-page.tsx's existing style) — simpler, matches today's code, but no language toggle.

I'll follow whichever you prefer and align terminology with the existing Chinese docs. Thanks!

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（中文说明：我是 LoopX 用户/潜在贡献者，想把仪表盘 UI 中文化。发现主仪表盘 dashboard-page.tsx 已硬编码中文，但 frontstage-page.tsx 等其余视图仍是英文，且仓库无 i18n 框架、issues 中也无 localization 讨论。想确认上游更倾向"引入 i18n 框架实现多语言"还是"延续当前内联中文"路线，以免 PR 被拒或重复造轮子。）

[huangruiteng]

Thanks for checking before opening a PR. Today the dashboard has no i18n framework: the status/priority/connection mapping tables in dashboard-page.tsx hardcode Chinese, while most other surfaces are English. A focused PR that introduces a lightweight string layer for the dashboard (or at least extracts the hardcoded strings into one table) would fit the current codebase well; please open a draft PR with the proposed approach and we'll review the direction there. Keeping the mapping tables' existing Chinese labels as the default is fine for a first pass.

[huangruiteng]

你可以关注 https://github.com/huangruiteng/loopx/tree/frontend-control-plane-im-prototype-rfc 这个 branch。
我们将会用这个新前端来替代旧的控制面。
可以看看新前端的代码，来评估这块逻辑。
我可能倾向于i18n框架