wtf is claude-desktop-zh-simple?

This project is a small Windows script that translates the Claude Desktop app into Simplified Chinese. It works by swapping out three English language resource files inside the installed app with Chinese versions, and it does not touch any other part of the program. The author built it because other translation approaches felt more complicated, and this one aims to be lighter, simpler, and quicker to keep updated whenever Claude Desktop itself gets a new version. The translation content comes from a memory file with more than eighteen thousand phrase pairs. Some entries may read a bit awkwardly since the translator worked without seeing the actual interface, so the author invites people to report or submit fixes. Right now the tool only supports Windows, and the author welcomes help adapting it for Mac. To use it, you close Claude Desktop, run the included batch file with administrator rights, and pick the menu option to translate using the phrase memory. The script checks for updates to both itself and the translation memory each time it starts, trying GitHub first and falling back to Gitee if that fails. Before changing anything, it automatically backs up the original English files for the current Claude Desktop version, so you can restore them later from the menu if needed. Because the Windows app folder for Claude Desktop is normally protected, the script adjusts file ownership and permissions just for the specific resource files it needs to edit. Other menu options let you check the current translation status, back up manually, restore from backup, export a list of English text the memory file did not cover, and manually check for updates. The tool can also be run directly from the command line with flags for status, patch, restore, or update actions. The project is offered for free, and the author asks that people not pay for it through resale channels.