[Bug 1653555] Re: Language settings stuck for KDE apps

[dronus]

I already fixed the problem.

The locale indeed showed a remaining 'ar' at LANGUAGE, like:

LANGUAGE=de_DE:ar:en_GB:en


After exhaustive search, I found this LANGUAGE definition in
~/.pam_environment. I changed it there, logged out and in again, and now
KDE apps are in english (despite the main language of my system is
german).

So there are two parts of this bug:
1) The added language 'ar' made it somehow to the file .pam_environment and stays there even if it is removed completely by the language-selector tool. This file is somehow used to set the LANGUAGE variable of the user session, I don't know for what this file is meant for.

2) KDE apps in Gnome take a different predescence of languages. While
Gnome apps use the first language mentioned it seems (or some other
variable, not LANGUAGE), the KDE apps in Gnome use LANGUAGE and in my
case the MIDDLE entry of it ('ar'). Why? Why? Why?

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Title:
  Language settings stuck for KDE apps

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  On my Ubuntu 16.04 system, updates as of today, after switching my
  system language from german to arabic and later back using the unity-
  control-center, KDE apps got stuck to arabic language (all GUI
  elements right-to-left text in arabic language). All other apps open
  in german language.

  I now completely removed arabic from the language list (unchecked the
  box), but KDE apps still open using arabic language.

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