[Bug 1103547] Re: drag and drop does not work language support not complete

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2013-02-10 18:23, Philipp Gassmann wrote:
> But if you don't want to deliver full language support e.g. don't
> install gimp-help-de you will still encounter the drag'n'drop bug.

True. But please note that Ubuntu currently makes the languages
available on an all or nothing basis. If you don't want to install
(certain) German language support packages, don't install German in the
first place. ;-)  Admittedly this means that you are forced to install
certain packages that you don't use. OTOH, everyone's computers contain
a lot of such packages, right? Today, with the huge space that hard
disks provide, it's typically not a problem in practice.

> Update: It's not driver related. It's some kind of randomness.

And the randomness would make the issue pretty difficult to track down,
I suppose. For that reason, and since it's not present in Quantal and
Raring, I for one am disinclined to spend more time on it.

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Title:
  drag and drop does not work language support not complete

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “language-selector” source package in Precise:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Nomination of the fix of this bug for a Precise SRU
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  [Impact]
  Users who have the enhanced "frami" version of the German hunspell dictionary installed are incorrectly prompted to install the conflicting standard version each time they launch language-selector.

  Philipp Gassmann: "I also think that this fix should be backported to
  precise because of its usage in enterprises, where multiple locales
  are more common and the preferences of users diverse."

  [Regression Potential] 
  The fix does two things:
  1. Prevents the incorrect prompts.
  2. Makes the check for incomplete language support cover all the installed languages, and not only the current system language (which is considered a fix of a related not reported bug).

  The risk for regression is low.

  Original description
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  After dismissing the notification, that language-support is incomplete, drag and drop of the available languages does not work.

  Workaround:
  1. Press Ctrl and Drag something > Does not change order.
  2. Release Ctrl. > Drag and drop ordering works.

  Related Problem: The "frami" versions of the German hunspell packs are not recognised as a replacement for the default hunspell.
  (e.g. hunspell-de-ch-frami is enhanced variant of hunspell-de-ch)
  So every time gnome-language-selector is started, it asks to install hunspell-de-ch which conflicts without any notice!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: language-selector (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-36.57-generic 3.2.35
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-36-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jan 23 17:38:11 2013
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-22 (246 days ago)

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