Bug 460711

Summary: Too many locales listed in language selection
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lauri Nurmi <lanurmi>
Component: gdmAssignee: jmccann
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: cschalle, i18n-bugs, mclasen, petersen, rstrode, tfujiwar, vpvainio
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Description Lauri Nurmi 2008-08-30 00:31:54 UTC 
Note: This bug report is written with the Live CD in mind.

Description of problem:
There are hundreds of locales listed in the GDM language selection dialog.  This is too much, finding your own language can be a time consuming task.  (That is especially because the the names are not quite in alphabetical order, even the ones with Latin letters only.)  With a Live CD, you need to do this at every boot.

The real reason causing this huge list is that a lot of languages are listed at least twice, one entry for each country where such a language is spoken.  English has 15 entries, Español has 20.  I doubt there are 20 translation teams for different variants of Spanish, so all these entries basically give you the same translation.  I know there are a few exceptions, e.g. en_GB and pt_BR.


Actual results:
A huge list of locales.


Expected results:
A shorter list of languages.


Additional info:
The shorter list could be achieved by listing each language only once.  If necessary, there could be an additional question about the country, depending on the language chosen.
Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2008-09-01 02:23:34 UTC 
Hmm, perhaps using a treeview for langs with many regions would help?
Comment 2 Lauri Nurmi 2008-09-01 15:18:11 UTC 
A treeview would certainly suit better than a plain list.  And of course, the tree items should be collapsed by default, otherwise the number of visible lines would be even greater than with the plain list.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2008-09-05 03:13:50 UTC 
No, a treeview be too complicated ui-wise. It would be much better to trim the list to the language/country combinations that actually have different translations.
Comment 4 Tony Fu 2008-09-10 03:12:40 UTC 
requested by Jens Petersen (#27995)
Comment 5 fujiwara 2009-08-28 07:39:10 UTC 
Regarding to trimming lang tag, I filed bugzilla.gnome 593359.
Comment 6 Matthias Clasen 2011-02-27 23:50:00 UTC 
Language selection has been removed from the login screen in f15
Comment 7 Ville-Pekka Vainio 2011-02-28 18:30:10 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> Language selection has been removed from the login screen in f15

Then how is the language selected in the live CD? After login is a bit too late...