[Bug 35869] French-translated menus appearing in english despite locale settings

[Bertrand LERICHE]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35869

Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
Some menus which are marked "translated" in Rosetta are still shown in
english. For example the "System" menu, and inside it, the "Lock
screen", "Log out" and "Help" items are still in english, while the
"About Ubuntu" and "About Gnome" items are correctly translated. The
same happens for many comments.

I verified in the gnome-panel-2.0.mo and in the source package, these
translations are present; but they don't actually appear at runtime.

I think my environment is correctly defined : 
LANGUAGE="fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en"
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
I'm quite sure (through many tests) that these variables are correctly given to gnome-panel, so I assume it has to be an internal problem.