[Bug 306591] Re: Locale settings in shell initialization not used by GNOME session

[Jonathan Marsden]

I am not a GNOME i18n expert, at all.  But I do know that if you use
GNOME the way it was intended, i18n generally "just works" and you do
not need to mess with manually setting locale variables in .bashrc or
.dmrc or anywhere else.

Set a language at the gdm screen, and when prompted, tell it to make
this new language/locale the default for your user, and it adds
information to that effect to your ~/.dmrc  Then, next time that user
logs in, they get that chosen language/locale.  Such a user will find
that their shell locale is correct, too, when they open up a terminal
window.  Job done.  User does not need to care where the info is stored
or how it works.  User never edits a ~/.anything file!  It just works.

I think you are trying to "mess with" the guts of how GNOME does things,
and (lacking detailed info on exactly how it works) that attempt is
apparently confusing you.  Since your end users are unlikely to do this
kind of thing, your testing should probably do it the way your users
will, for maximum fidelity.  For one-time quick tests during
development, you can of course always do

  LC_ALL=whatever LC_TIME=foobar gnomesword &

type of things, this sets the locale vars for that one process (and its
subprocesses) only.  The shell has allowed this for many years, probably
decades, and this is not GNOME or Ubuntu specific in any way.  If you
want to test GNOME menus, then I think you need to be starting GNOME the
way end users will, not trying to manually tweak it, if you want the
tests to be valid for real life users.

Do you really truly need more that this?  Is there really a bug here?
If so, what exactly is the bug?

I'd suggest closing this as NOTABUG at this point.  But that's just my
opinion.

If you have a question (as opposed to a bug), then you could try using
LaunchPad "Answers" to ask it, and see if you get a solid answer to it
there.  It might be good to phrase the question in terms of the user
requirement "how do I achieve result X", rather than in terms of the
method "how do I get GNOME to read locale settings from shell
initialization file Y", for best results.

Jonathan

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Locale settings in shell initialization not used by GNOME session
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