This bug is in the debian package of lightning, not the thunderbird package.
ons 2019-12-18 klockan 07:14 +0100 skrev Carsten Schoenert: > Control: tags -1 wontfix > > Hello Jonatan, > > Am 17.12.19 um 19:17 schrieb Jonatan Nyberg: > > Open Thunderbird -> Click Display the Thunderbird menu -> Click > > Preferences -> Click Preferences -> Click General -> Language > > (header) > > -> Select Swedish (download language) -> Click Apply and Restart > > Then I get the screen (attached screenshot). > > well, I can confirm this behavior. But I don't consider this as a > Debian > bug because if you use Debian packages all works as intended. > > I'm puzzeld, why do you want to download an external package if all > needed packages are available within Debian? Why do you not simply > install the package 'thunderbird-l10n-sv-se'? > > One of the reasons for all the l10n packages is that quite often > systems > are used by users with different needed environment languages, > installing the needed l10n packages and selecting the required locale > by > the user is enough to get an UI which is also localized into the same > language as the desktop environment which is used. > > > I tried with Thunderbid + lightnig build installed from > > https://thunderbird.net which works as it should. > > Mozilla is providing various pre-compiled localized versions of > Thunderbird for Linux. Which ones you have used here? The version > with > included l10n strings for Swedish works of course as expected. > > If I try to use the en-US version as base I'm unable to even add > another > l10n language pack! And this (somehow) possible way is not really > supported by Mozilla since the release of the previous ESR version > 60.x. > User which need a Thunderbird UI with an Sewdish UI need to download > and > use the prepared Swedish version. > > This all is completely outside of the focus from packaging > Thunderbird > for Debian. > > Your subject war misleading and let me guessing there is a issue with > the packaged Swedish l10n package for Thunderbird. But this isn't the > case. > > > I cannot deactivate all add-ons because I can't get to the > > Thunderbird > > Preferences because of this bug. > > The man page for Thunderbird is helping out here. > > > EXAMPLES > > Some typical use case for starting Thunderbird from a console > > Starting Thunderbird without any extra options, useful to any > > messages from thunderbird in case something went not o.k.:> > > ... > > Starting Thunderbird without any extensions or themes, > > useful if extensions may make some trouble: > > > > thunderbird --safe-mode > > Or reading further on the wiki page I linked to in my previous email. > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Thunderbird#Bug_Reporting_.2F_Issues > > Have you tried to disable all plugins to check if the issue is now > > still existing?> In case something is misbehaving on your side > > it's good to know > > if the problem is in Thunderbird or in some (or more) > > extensions. > > You can check this by starting Thunderbird in safe mode, which > > will disable all extensions for that specific session. If > > Thunderbird is working now normally the problem is typically in > > one or more extensions. You can start Thunderbird from a CLI > > with > > the following call to start in safe mode. > > > > $ thunderbird --safe-mode
