"Click or press a key to unlock" string not translated into french

[Nicolas DERIVE]

On the lockscreen, the "Click or press a key to unlock" string is not translated, at least in french.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gdm3 3.34.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-18.22-generic 5.4.24
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu21
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 31 14:56:11 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-02-21 (404 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-03-20 (11 days ago)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I couldn't find "Click or press a key to unlock" among the translatable strings for gdm3, looks like it might be in gnome-shell instead https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/gnome-shell/+pots/gnome-shell/fr/453/+translate. The good news is that has been recently translated. I am not sure how often they are updated, but I believe this should make it into a new language pack version before release of 20.04. (Judging by the release schedule https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseSchedule the deadline for language packs is April 16th, but I would expect to see it in an update sooner)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

That's odd. The source code suggests the French translation has existed since at least version 3.35.92.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

From commit d90a79fe7a:

+msgid "Click or press a key to unlock"
+msgstr "Cliquer ou appuyer sur une touche pour déverrouiller"

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Date format in lockscreen is also wrong, (Day Month Day Number)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Daniel, we had .91 until a week ago and directly went to 3.36.0
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+changelog

The was no langpack updates since that update landed but it's translated in launchpad now so should be part of the next langpack export

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Are you saying Ubuntu language updates override upstream? Because the original reporter seems to have:

  gnome-shell 3.36.0-2ubuntu2

which should have the translation already.

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

@seb128 does it also fix lockscreen date format?

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

language-pack-gnome-fr 1:20.04+20200407 is now available in Focal, could you check if this resolves the issue?

(I don't know if the date format has been changed/affected, that might be a separate issue)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The new langpack include the translation and the format fix