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.newWindow
  • codex.commandMenuTitle.newThread
  • codex.commandMenuTitle.quickChat
  • codex.commandMenuTitle.openFolder
  • codex.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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