In response to Guido's statements: 1) the users language preference in known and can be easily set at the time an account is created
Good point. For new accounts I think you would expect to need to be prompted for choosing a language. 2) there is an user interface in the desktop environment to select the language of a session Yes. I'd be interested to know if desktop environment intentionally do not provide this functionality? 3) every user of the system will be able to navigate in the system's default language to this interface in order to change it to his preferred/native language This goes back to point 1) - if you haven't set the language then you really need to be prompted -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/803858 Title: No language chooser on login screen in LightDM Status in Light Display Manager: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: LightDM doesn't appear to have a language selection choice in the Login screen, we need this to switch between Chinese and English for regular use, this feature is present in GDM, and we are really want to have it in LightDm as well, including correct setup of the zh_CN.utf-8 locale. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/803858/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp