Hello, I have been trying to switch language with gnome-language selector today. I was using a Lubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, which I customized and remixed with Remastersys.
I have installed it in English to a Virtualbox machine, and after that I tried to switch to French. When I opened the gui, the English language from different English speaking countries where presented : "English" in first, the other ones grayed, and at the end of the list "French" was there and greyed too so these ones I could try to click on them, nothing happened. I tried to change : first went to the next tab and unticked English. Then English packages for locales where removed. Rebooted. Alas the menus where still in English. I tried again, and again, rebootin between each trial, once starting the program from the console to seek for messages, added libperl-locale, and several other packages in case it would help. Rebooted again and again each time in hope the language would have changed but no go! I started the program again from console, but this time invoking it with gksu : the result was not better. Anything tried failed, the line for the language was now "French" and was alone there, but the menus where still in English. As it's Lubuntu, I also tried to erase the menu cache file in ~/.config/menus, but that didn't do it either. At the end, fed up from trying I went to edit the /etc/default/locale by hand, rebooted, and : yes ! the menus from the panel, from lightdm login screen, and in applications where now in French ! Hurrah ! Well, it seems to me that "Gnome language selector" is a gui application which does nothing. Do you think it could be reviewed and fixed ? (All users know not how to edit files by hand, or even have an idea that there is a file, and where). Thank you very much for trying. Mélodie -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362204 Title: gnome-language-selector don't let the user understand if he/she has modified something or not Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: evolution gnome-language-selector isn't clear for the user: the user doesn't understand whether he/she has changed somnething or not. It lack a button saying "save new settings" and a "discard" one. Besides that, if I add a language with the button "install/remove languages...", it doesn't remember it: it asks me for my password, it checks language availability, but apparently it doesn't install the packages relative to the new language. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/362204/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
