Am Freitag, den 19.06.2009, 16:12 +0200 schrieb Sever P A: > I need to elaborate a list of languages supported (strings like > "spanish", "english",...) by the environtment (so, the available > ones), while GDM, for example, cannot pemits log in in a different > language that of those set by a locale-gen process.
The available ones *are* those which have locales generated for them. Or are you writing a system tool that can install language packs? You might want to look at how the Ubuntu language selector does it, then. In either case, you've hit on a hard problem. I don't think there is an even remotely portable way to do that sort of thing. You will be lucky already if it works across different Linux distributions. > After this list gotten, I'd like to know the environment language, and > then, if it's possible, to get all this list according the current > language... Since I think GDM does what you want, I had a look at the GDM source and found this: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gdm/tree/gui/simple-greeter/gdm-languages.c To me, this looks like a thorough attempt to provide this sort of functionality in a generic manner. From what I can see, it does *not* hard-code the list of languages but gets them from the system. It also appears to translate the language names to the currently selected local language by accessing a special locale name. It is quite likely that this code relies on features only available on the modern Linux desktop. But given the reality constraints, it looks a solid piece of work worth building upon. > For example, > > In a system in that only has generated the four English, Spanish, > French and Italian locales... > > The appropiate list for an english environment, would be, > ("English", "Spanish", "French", "Italian") So you want to list only languages with available locales, after all. Isn't this just what GDM does? --Daniel _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
