Codex Desktop: Chinese UI still shows English labels in File menu
Open 💬 3 comments Opened Jun 24, 2026 by lijiale19910828-dot
What happened?
Codex Desktop is set to Chinese (zh-CN), and most of the UI is shown in Chinese. However, the native File menu still shows several submenu items in English:
- New Window
- New Chat
- Quick Chat
- Open Folder...
- Close
- Settings...
- Log Out
- Exit
The top-level native menu labels are localized, for example 文件 / 编辑 / 视图 / 帮助, so the app language setting appears to be applied.
Environment
- OS: Windows
- Codex Desktop version: 26.616.10790.0
- UI language preference: zh-CN, zh
Investigation
The bundled native-menu-locales/zh-CN.json appears to be missing translations for command menu title keys such as:
codex.commandMenuTitle.newWindowcodex.commandMenuTitle.newThreadcodex.commandMenuTitle.quickChatcodex.commandMenuTitle.openFoldercodex.commandMenuTitle.settings
As a result, these menu items appear to fall back to English.
Expected behavior
When Codex Desktop is set to Chinese, all native menu items should be localized into Chinese.
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