From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Epiphany/1.6.5 Description of problem: It should be trivial and simple for a user to configure their preferred language as a preference for themselves. Currently a Gnome user can change the *system wide* default language, but not configure a *preference* for their own default language. Adding this should be a piece of cake, thanks to ~/.i18n (and /etc/sysconfig/i18n) Please could this be considers a target for FC5. Red Hat has supported utf8 for ages now, this simple addition would make the life of multi-lingual systems a lot easier. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: x Additional info:
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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