https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219552
Summary: User cannot change language Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Beta 2 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: stbinner@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de
The GNOME desktop / control center doesn't offer any way to change the desktop language for the user.
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jpr@novell.com changed:
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------- Comment #1 from jpr@novell.com 2006-11-09 13:33 MST ------- You use gdm (and it will remember it for you) or Yast. Changing it once you've logged in is not useful since you can't propogate the LANG variable very well.
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------- Comment #2 from jpr@novell.com 2006-11-09 13:44 MST ------- Also, there is a link to the yast module in the newer control center that takes you to yast.
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stbinner@novell.com changed:
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------- Comment #3 from stbinner@novell.com 2006-11-10 01:57 MST ------- I have kdm running and not gdm, and kdm doesn't offer option to change language of GNOME desktop.
And I/user wants to change his desktop language, not the system language. And the user may not known the root password.
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------- Comment #4 from sbrabec@novell.com 2006-11-10 04:03 MST ------- This problem has two different aspects:
1. kdm cannot change login language, gnome itself does not UI for it.
2. GNOME uses GConf + instant apply for nearly everything. One of few exceptions is the language, which still uses the old-style UNIX way with environment variable inheritance. Possible change of this was discussed in past, but there is no result yet. For newly launched applications the change should not be very complicated, for running applications it may be more complicated.
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jpr@novell.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Critical |Normal Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |danw@novell.com
------- Comment #5 from jpr@novell.com 2006-11-10 09:44 MST ------- 1. Make this a kdm feature request then.
2. Its not instant apply for compatability reasons, same as TZID
In no way is this critical, its been like this for many suse releases.
If you want a feature request for this in gnome, please file it as such.
Dan, where does the session manager get the lang setting from on login?
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danw@novell.com changed:
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------- Comment #6 from danw@novell.com 2006-11-10 13:31 MST ------- gnome-session just assumes that LANG will already be set in its environment when it's started, and it passes that on to its children.
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------- Comment #7 from stbinner@novell.com 2006-11-21 06:57 MST ------- How is language switching handled in upstream GNOME?
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------- Comment #8 from danw@novell.com 2006-11-21 07:29 MST ------- If you don't want to use the system default language, you pick an alternate language at the login screen the same way you'd pick an alternate session, and gdm remembers your default language and selects it automatically in the future. There's no way to change the language system-wide while you're logged in. (Applications just look at $LANG, so you can run individual apps with a different LANG if you want, but to change the language of already running apps you need to log out and back in.)
There's an upstream bug for the ability to change a user's default language from outside of gdm: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333035 But no one appears to be working on it.
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jpr@novell.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Normal |Enhancement
------- Comment #9 from jpr@novell.com 2007-02-12 12:44 MST ------- Could be dealt with in gnome-session, may have to do something similar for timezones as well.
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Petr Baudis pbaudis@novell.com changed:
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--- Comment #10 from Petr Baudis pbaudis@novell.com 2007-09-09 12:28:15 MST --- *** Bug 309029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309029
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219552#c11
Petr Baudis pbaudis@novell.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Enhancement |Minor Component|GNOME |GNOME Product|openSUSE 10.2 |openSUSE 10.3 Version|Beta 2 |Beta 3
--- Comment #11 from Petr Baudis pbaudis@novell.com 2007-09-09 12:34:58 MST --- Still valid for 10.3. I believe that this is an UI bug, as also nicely shown in the GNOME bug 333035 referenced above - most people don't expect their language to be selected in gdm. I think being able to switch language on the fly would be major task for implementation, but noone really cares about that - just having a way to select language from inside of GNOME would be fine.
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JP Rosevear jpr@novell.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|GNOME |GNOME OS/Version|Other |openSUSE 10.3 Product|openSUSE 10.3 |openSUSE 11.0 Version|Beta 3 |unspecified
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User mtgordon@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219552#c12
Mark Gordon mtgordon@novell.com changed:
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--- Comment #12 from Mark Gordon mtgordon@novell.com 2008-01-08 09:03:20 MST --- The relevant upstream bug is now Gnome bug 333104
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User mtgordon@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219552#c13
Mark Gordon mtgordon@novell.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |casualprogrammer@yahoo.com
--- Comment #13 from Mark Gordon mtgordon@novell.com 2008-01-08 09:03:33 MST --- *** Bug 350795 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350795
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User casualprogrammer@yahoo.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219552#c14
--- Comment #14 from Casual J. Programmer casualprogrammer@yahoo.com 2008-01-08 09:38:18 MST --- As Bug 350795 ( enhancement request ) has been marked as a duplicate of this Bug, I suggest that its intent is taken care of, not just checked off as "just another duplicate".
The issue involves more than just the language setting, but the complete "locale" which involves date, time, currency, decimal point etc., etc.
The problem I approached this issue from was having language en_US, yet time settings European ( whatever locale, at least 24h ) a currency of my choice and decimal points of my liking.
As this is no problem at all in Windows XP, it seems to be a big deal in Linux and worth a discussion of whose job it may be. ( Upstream, downstream, every product for itself and so on. )
/usr/share/locale contains 201 locales to chose from ( if I'm counting correctly ) but there seems to be no way to bake your own.
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User captain.magnus@opensuse.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219552#c15
Magnus Boman captain.magnus@opensuse.org changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |captain.magnus@opensuse.org URL| |http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333104 Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |LATER Status Whiteboard| |should_go_upstream
--- Comment #15 from Magnus Boman captain.magnus@opensuse.org 2008-03-19 03:42:34 MST --- Closing as LATER as per our should_go_upstream guidelines
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User coolo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219552#c16
Stephan Kulow coolo@novell.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|LATER |
--- Comment #16 from Stephan Kulow coolo@novell.com 2008-06-25 03:10:33 MDT --- mass reopening of later+remind bugs of 11.0
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User sreeves@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219552#c17
Scott Reeves sreeves@novell.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |UPSTREAM
--- Comment #17 from Scott Reeves sreeves@novell.com 2008-08-20 13:32:59 MDT --- still being worked on upstream
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JP Rosevear jpr@novell.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |should_go_upstream Status Whiteboard|should_go_upstream |
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