[Bug 582654] New: seamonkey language preferences won't work after update
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582654 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582654#c0 Summary: seamonkey language preferences won't work after update Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: madmax@teenspirit.nl QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100206 SUSE/2.0.3-4.1 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 After an update of Seamonkey to version 2.0.3-4.1 the language of the user interface changed to Dutch. I prefer English. The menu was in Dutch, but for bugtracking purposes I use the English menu. I tried to change it back to English with Edit | Preferences | Appearance - User interface language. The language was already set to English but the menu not. I changed it to dutch, restarted, changed it to english, restarted, no changes. I removed seamonkey-translations-common and the user interface is English again. But that is not a solution. I want to be able to switch languages now and then. Packages installed: seamonkey-2.0.3-4.1.x86_64 seamonkey-venkman-2.0.3-4.1.x86_64 seamonkey-dom-inspector-2.0.3-4.1.x86_64 seamonkey-irc-2.0.3-4.1.x86_64 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Choose language with Edit | Preferences | Appearance - User interface language 2. Restart Seamonkey 3. Language is not changed Actual Results: Language doesn't change Expected Results: Language has to change I will report this bug also to bugzilla.mozilla. I did not find a bug report for seamonkey with the same problem. I'm not sure that this worked before update to 2.0.3-4.1. But at least then the language was already English with an installed package seamonkey-translations-common. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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The bugreport with bugzilla.seamonkey is set to resolved: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548246. Because my report is a feature; to switch Seamonkey with the OS language. Dependend of the intl.locale.matchOS, which on my configuration is set to true.
Correct, it's a feature. There is still the issue that the UI in seamonkey is not honored in that case. The thing is that this feature is not really a supported (from seamonkey) one. It's the same "workaround" we use in Firefox and Thunderbird to be able to ship multi-locale builds. Mozilla does not support that but for a Linux distribution it's the only way to support different locales. Probably we can find a way to support it from the UI.
I tested this situation on another computer. I see that the seamonkey-translations-common package is auto installed. This is probably the reason why Seamonkey switched to Dutch, because that is the OS language. I did not have the translations package installed. Why is this auto installed now?
It's installed now because the language packs are only available now. Seamonkey as shipped with openSUSE before hasn't had it. Your installation has a certain flag from installation to define which locale you've chosen at installation time or later. locale packages state which locales they support and get auto installed if the locale matches the config. So this bug ist still mainly a feature but I'll see if I can do something about the UI. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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One question remains, maybe that is also why you opened the upstream Mozilla bug. Suppose that someone wants to change to OS locale, what do you choose?
Nothing. Once someone selected something else it's fixed unless the user removes the general.useragent.locale pref from his profile manually on filesystem level or using about:config
And if someone changes the OS locale, does that change the seamonkey locale?
Only if the user has never selected another locale from the UI.
I tried this with systemsettings, but it didn't work for me. This is not a problem for me. The reason why I reported this bug, is solved for me. I can now change language through preferences of Seamonkey. Thanks again.
In a perfect configuration there should be something in the list like "Use system locale". I'll keep that in mind. I won't close this bug right away to see if I can do a bit more still. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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