Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: language-selector
There are two GUI menus in Ubuntu for selecting language: One on the GDM
login screen, and one in language-selector's "Language" tab. Both show
basically the locales that are currently available on the system.
However, the number of available translations are often just a fraction
of the number of locales. Examples: There are six German locales, but
just one German translation; there are two Swedish locales, but just one
Swedish translation, etc.
OTOH, as regards the language menu on GDM's login screen, there may be
locale variants among the options, such as ca_es.u...@valencia, which do
represent separate translations, but are either not shown at all, or
whose labels don't distinguish them from the locales of which they are
variants (bug 408474 and bug 685619).
Obviously this is confusing to the users, who can be assumed to expect
one option per translation. Which locales, variables etc. that are used
behind the scenes is not relevant to the average user.
It should be noted that the "Language" menu in the Ubuntu GDM package
has only recently (as part of the solution to bug 553162) been converted
from a general locale picker to a pure language picker. The reasoning in
this bug report may therefore not be applicable to GDM for other
distributions.
** Affects: ubuntu-translations
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Menus for choosing language should have one option per available translation
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