reassign 701585 general thanks Le mardi 26 février 2013 à 08:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > 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).
Thanks for your intervention, but there is nothing that can be done in GNOME. The bug is a general design choice in Debian, namely the one to not generate all locales but to require a “dpkg-reconfigure locales” to add new locales. > > 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. The problem is that nobody will have the idea to run this tool. > 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) That’s what gnome-control-center does. This is not helpful for the user who wants to select another language, though. The bug is that we do not install locales-all by default, nor do we default to generate all (at least all UTF-8) locales. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- 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/1361901794.10692.14.camel@tomoe
