[Desktop12.04-Topic] Integrate language-selector to control center

[Rodrigo Moya]

On mar, 2011-10-04 at 12:41 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Sebastien Bacher [2011-10-04 11:24 +0200]:
> > I think we should work on making the upstream "region" capplet do what
> > we need and deprecate language-selector in its favor if we can ;-)
> 
> Big +1. language-selector is pretty horrible code, I'd love to get rid
> of it. We will probably need to keep a distro specific bit like
> check-language-support which will determine the missing i18n packages
> based on the packages you already have installed. However, I'd like to
> rewrite this script from scratch.
> 
> I'm not sure how to integrate it best, whether to implement it as part
> of a distro specific "hook" in control-center (it probably will need
> one to figure out which distro packages to install for a newly added
> language), or whether it should become a method of accountsservice
> (although that sounds like an abuse to me).
> 
> Rodrigo probably has the best idea of where to put it?
> 
not really yet. There was some discussion about having it in the session
interface of PackageKit (which apt-daemon implements). That seems to be
the best place so far, better than having distro specific code in g-c-c.