On 2011-10-06 07:46, Martin Pitt wrote: > Didn't we introduce the "Langlist" field for that, in order to not break > other DMs which expect a locale there?
No, I'm afraid we didn't. "Langlist" contains e.g. 'de:en_GB:en' while "Language", which in GDM 2 was related to GDM_LANG, contains only 'de' (i.e. the first "Langlist" element, which should be one of the items that /usr/share/language-tools/language-options outputs). On 2011-10-06 07:48, Robert Ancell wrote: > So old GDM had it set to a locale: > http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.20/configuration.html > > Did it change in the new GDM, or is this an Ubuntu specific thing? It's an Ubuntu specific thing in GDM 2. (In GDM 3 ~/.dmrc isn't used.) So, in order to find out the size of this possible problem for LightDM, we should better ask ourselves if there is any Ubuntu derivative that - used GDM up to Natty AND - uses LightDM in Oneiric AND - does not use accountsservice in Oneiric. If not, there may be no need to do anything. Otherwise, the language2locale() function I proposed in https://code.launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/lightdm/lang-chooser/+merge/78226 might be handy. You could use that function to convert ~/.dmrc "Language" values that does not contain a '.' before setting LANG. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/868149 Title: Need to set $LANG from .dmrc for backwards compatibility Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric: Fix Released Bug description: This is fallout from bug 864618: In that bug we disabled the set_language() call as it invalidly sets $LANG to the "Language" property of accountsservice, which cannot work because $LANG is a locale and "Language" is only a language name. However, set_language() also sets the $LANG variable from ~/.dmrc, which we need for backwards compatibility and derivatives. So what should happen is that all the code which does the `locale -a` guesswork needs to be dropped, and only these parts remain which evaluate ~/.dmrc. Please see http://pad.ubuntu.com/locale-handling for details. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/868149/+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
