Bug 172130
| Summary: | RFE: User-based preference for languages | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Need Real Name <lsof> |
| Component: | gdm | Assignee: | jmccann |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | cschalle, i18n-bugs, jmccann, mclasen, nerijus, petersen, redhat-bugzilla, rstrode |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-05-09 16:17:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2005-10-31 18:48:45 UTC
*** Bug 171110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 167895 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 172131 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 136648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I cannot add new language with system-config-packages. "Update" button is not active when I select a new language. In FC3 SUPPORTED line in /etc/sysconfig/i18n includes all languages I selected during installation, but in FC4 only en_US. Is it intended? This is the same in Fedora 5 Test 1. Please can there be a system-wide administrative default for the language, but a user-specific preference, like there is for keyboard settings? This feature is offered on the gnome login screen. This RFE is a request for that to be accessible from within a running Gnome session. 2006 - still can't choose a language per user.. 2007 - still not there.. Moving to 'devel' as discussed on https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg00095.html. This bug has been open, in various forms, since 2004. You have not replied to any of the comments since 2005. Please can you update this bug? Hi lsof, I am the new maintainer of system-config-language, thank you for your notice. And I will work on it. :) Either X startup scripts, or GNOME startup is completely ignoring /etc/sysconfig/i18n and $HOME/.i18n settings other than $LANG currently due to some bug. I suppose not that many people are likely to manually set LANG, then set LC_COLLATE or whatever to something different, so the problem only likely affects a small number of users per se. The issue goes away in runlevel 3 with startx though. See bug #372151 for details. In order for the feature requested in this RFE to work, the above bug needs to be fixed. Adding FutureFeature keyword to RFE's. requested by Jens Petersen (#27995) This problem was caused due to hacks in gdm which resulted in ignoring ~/.i18n settings, but under startx ~/.i18n propagated as expected. I had filed a separate bug report on that problem a few years ago which I just reviewed and it has been closed as fixed in errata for F8 and newer (although I have not yet tested it). You might want to test Fedora 10 out to see if the problem still occurs. With current gdm do we still need this? Is ~/.i18n working these days with startx? My personal feeling is that this could probably be closed - however there may still be need for a locale config tool that would allow users to customize paper size, currency, LC_CTYPE, etc - maybe we need a custom locale support package for gdm or something (a bit like xorg-x11-xinit-session), together with a simple custom locale tool that would allow adjust the locale envvar for the desktop. Moving to gdm, since I would like to hear their take on this. Selecting a paper size in gdm is crazy, of course. Anyway, the actual complaint is fixed, since users _can_ select their personal language preference on the login screen, even if it is not stored in ~/.i18n |