On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:38:07AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > When running as root, I agree that using a global language setting > can be better. How can access such global language setting ?
/etc/default/locale
> > I understand that there are some old window managers that are not
> > able to dynamically change there menus according to the locale of the
> > user currently logged in, but modern desktops are able to. Please
> > provide some method for i18n-aware desktops (etc) to use more than one
> > generated menu method. (For instance, locale.gen might be a useful
> > file to work from to decide which languages to generate.)
>
> Menu is only acting in accordance to the menu-methods. Menu files are
> statically generated and it is quite frequent window managers only
> handle a single language.
> ...
> Actually XDG-compliant desktop (KDE and GNOME) use the menu-xdg
> menu-method that generate multilingual .desktop files.
>
> So is there some modern yet not XDG-compliant desktop that support
> multilingual ? In that case I am happy to help writing the menu-method.
I'm not sure about the state of XDG-compliance, but xfce4 (version
4.3.90.1-2, package xfdesktop4) exhibits the bad behaviour with its
menus, although it does support translations. I just reported the bug:
#370712
Peace,
Dylan Thurston
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