> Nobody sat down and designed the current behavior.
Well, checking "admin" group membership long predates the advent of
polkit. admin group members are still _the_ fundamental definition of an
administrator in Ubuntu; sudo, polkit, etc. all define their privileges
based on that in their default configuration.
So if you created a new group that are admins in the sense of "root",
but is not called "admin", nothing on the desktop will recognize this at
first. This includes language selector, but also things like which
.desktop files are presented in the desktop and which aren't, then sudo,
and a couple of other places which check group memberships. (You already
updated your polkit configuration etc. of course, but that's not
sufficient for everything).
That said, if someone wants to change language-selector to query polkit
for com.ubuntu.languageselector.setsystemdefaultlanguage instead of
checking the group membership , that would be very welcome. It's one of
the few remaining places which still directly uses the groups.
** Summary changed:
- [Precise] Language selector won't allow me to install languages
+ checks "admin" group membership instead of querying polkit
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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