https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429474
Bug ID: 429474
Summary: KDE regional settings language selection
Product: kde
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: minor
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: unassigned-b...@kde.org
Reporter: lassi_suri...@yahoo.ca
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
KDE Regional Settings Language selection - insufficient language selection
blocks off access to message catalogues for non-KDE applications.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Try to select Swampy Cree as primary KDE language.
2. Try to select Esperanto as primary KDE language.
3.
OBSERVED RESULT
At least one of those will not be possible.
EXPECTED RESULT
Arbitrary language selection should be possible, at least from the set of
languages supported on the host system, and possibly extending to nonexistent
languages, or inconsequentially translated or untranslated languages.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian testing (bullseye/sid)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.74
Qt Version: 5.15
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The list of languages offered by KDE plasma translations control panel seems
arbitrary.
* It doesn't correspond to the set of locales that have been generated by
locale-gen
* It doesn't correspond to the set of languages in
/usr/[local/]share/i18n/SUPPORTED
* It doesn't correspond to the set of languages listed in
/usr/share/locale/kf5_all_languages
* It doesn't correspond to any i18n or l10n packages that are installed on my
system.
* It doesn't (under Debian) correspond to the list of
task-<language>-kde-desktop packages that are installed.
* My system default language is not shown on the list of available languages.
This is quite a problem, because KDE uses this language list to set the
LANGUAGE environment variable for everything else. This cuts off access to the
message catalogues in many languages that originate outside KDE.
I ought to be able to select any arbitrary language, not just ones that KDE
provides. For example, my system default is Esperanto, and a lot of
applications are at least partially translated into Esperanto. The lack of
selection in the KDE control module means that I need to take extra measures to
see my language in non-KDE applications.
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