reopen 701585 reassign 701585 gnome-settings-daemon severity 701585 normal thanks
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 09:30:03PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Hello Carlos, > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > Debian-Devel is no user support channel for Debian. No, but the BTS is (to some extent), and there are various tools that suggest the package "general" if you don't know what the exact buggy program is. When doing that, the package ends up on debian-devel. Since the bug reporter mentioned he tried to use a gnome settings tool to switch languages, but that it didn't work, I'm reassigning this bug to gnome-settings-daemon (at a guess, but that does *seem* to be the most appropriate). > Btw. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" might help, and look for the > localization packages and tasks via APT/aptititude. Yes, that might help this particular user; but if there is a tool that claims to be able to do something but isn't, then that is a bug. I can think of several ways to fix it: the tool could display a helpful error message when the user selects a language that isn't enabled in /etc/locale.gen, or it could simply disable all languages not found there (again, with a helpful message for where to look if a wanted language isn't in the list), or it could emulate KDE and use a totally different way of doing language support (though that wouldn't be my preference), or it could keep it simple and simply display a warning message above the list of languages to select that languages listed here must also be enabled through "dpkg-reconfigure locales", or any of a number of other things. At any rate, a bug severity of "important" does not seem right to me. -- Copyshops should do vouchers. So that next time some bureaucracy requires you to mail a form in triplicate, you can mail it just once, add a voucher, and save on postage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130226073458.ga21...@grep.be
