MicroOS desktop localizations
Hi there, First of all, thanks to everybody working on the MicroOS project. The combination of tumbleweed + immutability is really appealing. I would like to ask about something that could help non-English-speaking users get into using MicroOS as a desktop, and that is localization. After some testing I've compiled a list with all the "-lang" packages I needed to use Gnome in my local language and also update home user folders. I was wondering if this is something worth checking to be included in the default install and how would that be? Would it be done modifying the patterns to include those packages? I could help with that (and it would be an excuse to learn how to use obs :) ). Thanks again for an amazing job, Fran
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 16. März 2022, 12:18:51 CET schrieb Francisco Torres Perez:
Hi there, First of all, thanks to everybody working on the MicroOS project. The combination of tumbleweed + immutability is really appealing.
I would like to ask about something that could help non-English-speaking users get into using MicroOS as a desktop, and that is localization. After some testing I've compiled a list with all the "-lang" packages I needed to use Gnome in my local language and also update home user folders. I was wondering if this is something worth checking to be included in the default install and how would that be? Would it be done modifying the patterns to include those packages? I could help with that (and it would be an excuse to learn how to use obs :) ).
Normally those are pulled in through locale capabilities, e.g. locale(plasma5-desktop:de) provided by plasma5-desktop-lang. Does "zypper addlocale <your locale>" install anything? If not, this is more fallout of the solver.onlyRequired setting and we'd probably need some more workarounds. Cheers, Fabian
Thanks again for an amazing job, Fran
Thanks Fabian, I've reinstalled it in a VM and if I run "zypper locales" I can see Spanish as requested and then "en" and "es" as fallback options. Looks like if I remove my locale and add it again then it installs the right packages. I think those packages are not in the iso image and that's why they were not installed from the start, is it? Cheers
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 16. März 2022, 12:52:19 CET schrieb Francisco Torres Perez:
Thanks Fabian, I've reinstalled it in a VM and if I run "zypper locales" I can see Spanish as requested and then "en" and "es" as fallback options. Looks like if I remove my locale and add it again then it installs the right packages. I think those packages are not in the iso image and that's why they were not installed from the start, is it?
Yep, that's what I thought as well. FWICT those should already be included, so it's probably a bug somewhere. Can you file a report on bugzilla? Cheers, Fabian
Cheers
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