Package: icedove
Version: 5.0-1~bpo60+1
Severity: normal
We run icedove in a lab environment where we wish to support multiple
different languages for foreign users. However, most people simply want
en_US as the default. So, we attempt to set this in the
/etc/icedove/pref/icedove.js file (as seen below), however the setting
doesn't take. Instead, the user ends up with "es_GT" [1] getting
written to their local spellchecker.dictionary setting in their local
pref.js even after they have manually selected "en_US". That is to say,
the user's prefs.js will be lacking any specification if they choose the
one that was already set in the system prefs.js, and at that point the
next time they launch the program the the system prefs.js is still not
respected, so it goes back to selecting es_GT.
The result is that we have to either uninstall all of our foreign
language dictionary packs, or use lockPref() to force the dictionary to
en_US, which is also not good for the foreign users ability to choose
an alternative.
Similar behavior occurs in iceweasel 7 as well.
Let me know if you need any more details.
Thanks,
Brian
[1] Actually, it will just pick one of the other dictionaries if you
start removing languages. It's not clear to me if it's choosing based
on some offset or directory order mode or what. The point is that it
doesn't respect the default.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages icedove depends on:
ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6~bpo60+1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification
ii libffi5 3.0.9-3 Foreign Function Interface library
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.11-1 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.11-3~bpo60+1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpixman-1-0 0.22.0-1.1~bpo60+1 pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.6.3-1~bpo60+1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstartup-notificati 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libvpx0 0.9.1-2 VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii psmisc 22.11-1 utilities that use the proc file s
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages icedove recommends:
ii hunspell-ko [hunspell-dicti 0.4.3-1 Korean dictionary for hunspell
ii myspell-de-de [myspell-dict 20091006-4.2 German dictionary for myspell
ii myspell-en-us [myspell-dict 1:3.2.1-2 English_american dictionary for my
ii myspell-es [myspell-diction 1.10-9 Spanish dictionary for myspell
ii myspell-fr [myspell-diction 1.4-25 The French dictionary for myspell
ii myspell-it [myspell-diction 1:3.2.1-2 Italian dictionary for myspell
ii myspell-pt-br [myspell-dict 20100109-3 Brazilian Portuguese dictionary fo
ii myspell-pt-pt [myspell-dict 20091013-2 European Portuguese dictionary for
ii myspell-ru [myspell-diction 0.99g5-8.1 Russian dictionary for MySpell
Versions of packages icedove suggests:
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.24.3-1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libnotify1 [libnoti 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii ttf-lyx 1.6.7-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/icedove/pref/icedove.js changed:
// This is the Debian specific preferences file for Mozilla Firefox
// You can make any change in here, it is the purpose of this file.
// You can, with this file and all files present in the
// /etc/thunderbird/pref directory, override any preference that is
// present in /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/pref directory.
// While your changes will be kept on upgrade if you modify files in
// /etc/thunderbird/pref, please note that they won't be kept if you
// do them in /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/pref.
pref("extensions.update.enabled", true);
// Use LANG environment variable to choose locale
pref("intl.locale.matchOS", true);
// Disable default mail checking (gnome).
pref("mail.shell.checkDefaultMail", false);
// if you are not using gnome
pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "x-www-browser");
pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "x-www-browser");
// Local customizations
// 2011-09-19
// bpkroth
// use an english dictionary by default
// NOTE: For this to take effect lockPref() seems to be necessary, but that's
// not so good for foreign users.
pref("spellchecker.dictionary", "en_US");
// <snip/>
-- no debconf information
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