From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Previews FC installers used additional language support screen and system default language options. Now in FC4 user has to select custom packages option and then add support to a second language. So when users select workstation installation for example cant see easily where to add a second language. Also supposed that finally users find and check the box for a second language there is no way to make this language default for the system through system-config -language tool. It presents only one language to choose... So at last they have to edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n to add and make default their language preference. Certainly not an obvious way and a step back from FC3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install FC4 2.want a second language support 3.make this language default for the system Actual Results: difficult configuration for new users Expected Results: Fc3 way was clearer Additional info:
i mean previous FC installers...
*** Bug 160806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It's actually *easier* to add languages now. Users get the option to add them post-install as well. The only reason it seems "harder" is its different.
ok. then drop the "easy to install" issue. Can you please tell us how to set any additional language as default for the system (during or after installation) and if it is easier than before?
Exatcly. As described in bug #160806, I've followed the instructions in the "Fedora Core 4 Installation Guide": http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/ch-installer-locale.html#sn-installer-language http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/sn-lang-packages.html This does install additional language packages, but it doesn't add support for other default system languages as was the case in FC3: # cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" # As it is system-config-language is useless.
reopen or open a new bug report? Maybe i was not clear enough in my initial report. So the bug is that installer does not put the needed text in /etc/sysconfig/i18n when a user selects to install additional languages. for example: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" should be something like that: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" SUPPORTED="el_GR.UTF-8:el_GR:el:en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" (for Greek language support) and then system-config-language will be usable again.
The real problem here is that wasn't any way for the supported languages list to get updated when new language support packages are selected on that screen. We really don't need to maintain a supported list for any good reason anyway. s-c-language should be able to do the right thing in that case. Fixed in CVS by removing all sorts of complicated and unnecessary langsupport code.