Public bug reported: Despite selecting French (or even Catalan) in gcompris' configuration menu, it displays either German or English item descriptions.
OTOH, I hear the french voices (coming from package gcompris-sound-fr) -- only when I select French in the config menu, which is reasonable. Note that changing the language in the menu has no effect until the next start. So you need to exit gcompris for language changes to have an effect. This is annoying, and the menu should mention this until it's possible to dynamically change languages (a minor bug). $ gcompris ** (gcompris:9867): WARNING **: config_file /home/hoehle/.gcompris/gcompris.conf ** Message: gcompris_set_locale 'fr_FR.UTF-8' Here's an example where I selected Catalan and added a LANG variable upon start to see if that would have an effect. $ LANG=fr_FR gcompris& [1] 9273 (gcompris:9273): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. ** (gcompris:9273): WARNING **: config_file /home/hoehle/.gcompris/gcompris.conf ** Message: gcompris_set_locale 'ca_ES.UTF-8' ^ ^ ^ Catalan is what I selected in gcompris' menu open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory Opened audio at 44100 Hz 16 bit stereo, 2048 bytes audio buffer __main__:1: DeprecationWarning: Module gnome.canvas is deprecated; please import gnomecanvas instead My system's default locale is German. When I select German, I indeed see German item descriptions. $ gcompris & ** (gcompris:9577): WARNING **: config_file /home/hoehle/.gcompris/gcompris.conf ** Message: gcompris_set_locale 'de_DE.UTF-8' In all other cases I tried, I see English descriptions. This situation is worse from Breezy, where most descriptions worked in French, and only some item's descriptions where displayed in English. I don't know why, I looked at the XML files containing the descriptions and they looked ok. That's a bug I had not reported so far. To my surprise, locale -a only reports $ locale -a C de_AT.utf8 de_BE.utf8 de_CH.utf8 de_DE.utf8 de_LU.utf8 en_AU.utf8 en_BW.utf8 en_CA.utf8 en_DK.utf8 en_GB.utf8 en_HK.utf8 en_IE.utf8 en_IN en_NZ.utf8 en_PH.utf8 en_SG.utf8 en_US.utf8 en_ZA.utf8 en_ZW.utf8 POSIX in Dapper, whereas the list was much much longer (including fr_FR.xyz and iso88591 entries) in Breezy. I don't have lang-pack-fr[-base] installed in Dapper, but IMHO this shouldn't affect the independent package gcompris, should it? Using gcompris-7.2-1ubuntu6 ** Affects: gcompris (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- only english or german descriptions displayed https://launchpad.net/bugs/52552 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs