Gunnar Hjalmarsson [2010-10-05 4:13 -0000]: > It seems to me that you, and possibly also Martin, assume that $LANG > ought to correspond to the first language in the $LANGUAGE list.
No, it shouldn't. I wasn't saying that, I was just saying that, since gdm doesn't have a way to configure $LANGUAGES, there is no point in faking $LANGUAGES, _because_ $LANG and $LANGUAGES are independent. > Basically, what I hope to convince you about is that since it's only > language that the users can set from GDM, and not any other locale > aspects No, it's exactly the other way around. gdm has a locale selector, but not a language list selector. > If I have understood it correctly, $LANGUAGE is a gettext specific > variable, and certain applications' inability to understand that > variable is not a bug per se. That's correct, $LANGUAGE is a GNU extension. > Consequently I think that Ubuntu in any case shall provide the > preferred translation language also via the $LC_MESSAGES variable, > and I don't think that's a workaround. I agree, this should indeed be fixed in language-selector. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- Set $LANGUAGE if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553162 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs