Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 217986
Enhancement: Ability to set default language for user
Last modified: 2008-05-06 21:01:59 EDT
Description of problem: I find myself having multiple users who all like different langauges set as their default and it would be great if it was possible to set up that kind thing as part of system-config-users so it would just work for them without having to do any kind of selection themselves. Maybe as an additional dropdown box in the Preferences->User data tab
As an extension, we could also add something to /etc/sysconfig/i18n that makes the setting different for normal users than system accounts below a certain uid. This would have the advantage that you don't need to write into user home-directories. regards, Florian La Roche
Changing the meaning of /etc/sysconfig/i18n is waaaay overkill. There are already multiple ways to fix this per-user, both with $HOME/.i18n, plus display manager settings (which can be edited as well.)
In case anyone looks into this, beware of bug #372151 which causes the i18n file settings to be mostly ignored. Not sure how many OS releases it has affected or if it is new to F8
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This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was first requested. As a result we are closing it. If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora version please feel free to reopen it against that version. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp