[Bug 1175499] Re: dbus interface

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Tim!

I suppose it would be possible.

But please note that there is already a plan to make "Region & Language" capable to handle installation of languages, and then replace language-selector with "Region & Language" in standard Ubuntu.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-q-deprecate-language-selector

I think you should talk with Iain Lane about your idea (just subscribed
him to this bug report).

Personally I find the idea interesting. language-selector will keep
being available also when standard Ubuntu has switched to "Region &
Language", since Xubuntu and Lubuntu does not use g-c-c. So if an
additional GUI in "Region & Language" for handling language
installations would make use of the existing code via dbus, the code for
langpack handling would not need to be duplicated.

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Title:
  dbus interface

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Would it be possible to add a dbus interface to language-selector?

  I am looking into to extending the native gnome region panel in gnome-
  control-center 3.8 to include support for installing language packs.
  It would be really useful if I could just ping language-selector to do
  all the hard work, listing available languages, listing required lang
  packs for a given language etc!

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