[Bug 553162] Re: Set $LANGUAGE if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing
David Planella
david.planella at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 15 16:39:58 BST 2010
El dl 11 de 10 de 2010 a les 12:35 +0000, en/na August Karlstrom va
escriure:
> I can't understand how the developers or testers of the language
> selector have missed the very basic test scenario of choosing different
> languages for text and numbert etc. and then starting the most commonly
> used application: Firefox.
>
Hi August,
In bug reports, we concentrate on fixing problems. While your input is
appreciated, it does not provide any insight on how to fix the bug and
might be better suited to a forum.
The testing scenario to reproduce this bug was not as trivial as you
were describing, and the bug was discovered early enough in the process
and reported. If it hasn't been fixed until now it's because the
solution is not trivial, either, but as you can see there has been
already very productive discussion towards a proper fix.
If you'd like to join that discussion, or help testing, please feel free
to jump in.
Thanks!
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Set $LANGUAGE if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553162
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Status in Ubuntu Translations: Triaged
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: In Progress
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: In Progress
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gdm
This is a follow-up to bug 407300, which has been fixed but a separate issue remains. I'm opening a separate task for language-selector, as it refers to the interaction between it and gdm.
The problem is basically that GDM seems to always override the LANG values set by language selector, and quite easily one can get to a situation where LANGUAGE and LANG differ and the desktop is a mixture of two languages.
Steps to reproduce (a):
* New install, choosing Catalan in the installer
* I log in without doing any changes to the language in GDM
* I start System > Administration > Language support
* I choose English there
* I log out
* I log back in without doing any changes in the GDM language chooser
* My session is half English and half Catalan due to LANGUAGE=en and LANG=ca_ES.utf8 (Firefox in Catalan, gnome-panel in English, gnome-menus in Catalan).
Steps to reproduce (b):
* Perform a full installation in English, as per http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/NonEnglishLanguage#Installation%20Full%20Network%20Support
* Go to System > Administration > Language Support
* Install the Traditional Chinese language
* Bring Traditional Chinese to the top of the list to become the main desktop language
* Press the "Apply System-wide..." button
* Reboot
* When entering the session, you'll notice the desktop half translated in English, half in Chinese. The most noticeable parts shown in English are all the menus and Firefox. These applications seem to ignore the LANGUAGE variable
* Running 'locale' on the terminal shows that LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and LANGUAGE=zh_K:en_US:en
I understand that this might be a problem in each application, as they should give LANGUAGE preference. Rather than filing a bug in each app right now, would it not make more sense to ensure that at least the first locale in LANGUAGE, the one in LANG and LC_MESSAGES are the same? (assuming it is possible to do such a thing, of course).
Also see the related bug 552664
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