It gives me SO much headache. I understand what I propose is a separate approach but can someone please specify what drawbacks lie behind creating a "language-creator" instead of "language-selector"? There are only 10 types of users: those finding default language settings for their country convenient and those needing custom locale files. So why there's no creator that would allow to specify system messages language, date in a form of %Y-%M-%D or YYYY-MM-DD, put in a decimal separator, currency name, first day of the week and so on? It would auto-normalize after a time by users' statistics (e.g. it can automatically sent statistics after a few days without changes to the locales and after the user agrees) so every popular scheme would "come up" shortly and could be coming predefined with new system distributions. Why do I have to trying out all the locales one by one to find out where's the one with convenient date, or decimal separator, with learning whole lang file structure and creating one myself as the only alternative? Language- selector, when fixed, will only allow to speed-up the "trying out" part but after trying every default set I will still end up editing files I do not understand. Your approach gives only N/M-1 probability of satisfying the user, where N is the number of prepared sets and M is the number of possible language/country combinations. And those are small chances.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553162 Title: Set $LANGUAGE if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
