Thanks for keeping sharing your ideas, André! I comment on some of them below.
On 2010-12-10 22:38, André Pirard wrote: > A second, different table was introduced, with similar inconvenience > (and solution) as the first one. In fact, it duplicates (and extends) > the choices proposed by GDM at login time. And, with the first > implementation of this I saw, the two methods were conflicting. Yes they were and still are conflicting. However, the past few weeks I've worked on that particular issue, and a solution is about to be uploaded any day now (bug 553162). It would be great if you could install the versions of language-selector and gdm that include the fixes: https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/locale-test and check out if you think the conflicts are properly dealt with. > Plus lack of documentation, the fact that all those Englishes and > Spanishes, are the same, the user thinks that he is facing complete > nonsense. Yes, there are far too many menu items for choosing languages. Ideally there should be one item per available translation. > Separating language from other locale is welcome. It would be even > more welcome to specify them in detail to, for example, use the > by-language default but specify the date as yy-mm-dd. That would be quite a different approach compared to selecting locale, and would need to be done in respective application. Cheers, Gunnar -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434351 Title: gnome-language selector is labyrinthine -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs