Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 442938
Gettext domain not set in polkit-gnome-authorization, messages in English even when translations are provided
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:55:35 EST
Description of problem: polkit-gnome-authorization is in English even though I'm using LANG=fi_FI.UTF8 and Finnish translations exist. This is most likely because the gettext domain is not set. Please see the Ubuntu bug report and the patch they have: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-gnome/+bug/199255 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13160136/debdiff_policykit-gnome_0.7-2ubuntu1.txt Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): PolicyKit-gnome-0.8-1.fc9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start polkit-gnome-authorization on a Gnome desktop using some non-English locale which has translations provided Actual results: The application is in English. Expected results: The application is in the language that the user has chosen, if the correct translations have been provided. Additional info: You might want to check this gettext stuff in other PolicyKit related source files which use translations. I don't know how to e.g. "reproduce" a screen asking for authorization to manage packages with PackageKit, but that should show the messages in the language the user has chosen as well.
I could "reproduce" the screen asking for authorization anyway, at least with PackageKit that was in Finnish except the header "System policy prevents removing package". So I believe the main problem here is just polkit-gnome-authorization.
Does this work if you do this pkill polkit-gnome-manager LANG=fi_FI.UTF8 /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-manager --no-exit and then from another shell polkit-auth --obtain org.freedesktop.policykit.modify-defaults
FWIW, this works for me http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/Screenshot-Tunnistaudu.png
And the reason the main message is in english is that the PolicyKit package lacks authorizations...
And just to prove that part of the i18n stuff works too http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/Screenshot-Tunnistaudu-1.png This should say something about changing timezones (I don't speak Finnish sorry!), right?
So, anyway, I think you the reason you saw the English messages were that you were logged into an English locale and didn't realize that that the authentication happens in a separate process spawned from the session bus. So if logging in into an Finnish locale this should just work. Otherwise please let us know. Thanks.
I'm sorry, I probably wasn't clear enough. Yes, that window is in Finnish and me mentioning it without testing as an additional info thing was probably unneeded. But the Authorization application polkit-gnome-authorization is completely in English and that's why I made this bug report in the first place. Please take a look at the Ubuntu bug report and patch as well. Here's a screenshot, this is from a desktop where those things that you demonstrated do work as well: http://vpv.fedorapeople.org/misc/Kuvakaappaus-Authorizations.png
I see. Actually your report was crystal clear, I was just reading it wrong. My bad. On the upside it made me verify that i18n is working in the auth dialogs. Oh well. So I've committed the patch upstream and it will land in 0.8-3.fc9. If you can verify these packages works for you http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=571522 it would be nice. Thanks!
The new version does work for me. Thanks!