ubuntu-bug budgie-control-center --> bug when change language

[Francisco Reis]

[Impact]

 * Multi language users cannot switch from English US to their own language via Budgie's control center application

 * This is essential capability for users who need to work across multiple languages.

 * The fix here is to lift the exact same patch as in jammy's GNOME Control Center that adapts to Ubuntu's specific language patching in accountservice et al.

[Test Plan]

 * Start budgie-control-center and navigate to the Region tab
 * From the language box confirm that the language is your current language e.g. French. Without the fix the language box will say "English United States"
 * Try to set to another language and click the restart session button when prompted. Without the fix, this will fail.

 * Next install from the proposed repo the package budgie-control-center
 * logout and login and launch budgie-control-center
 * again examine the language. This time the language box will say what your current language is
 * Try to set to another language and click the restart session button when prompted. Log back in and check that your chosen language is set correctly. Repeat for any other language you have installed.

[Where problems could occur]

 * The main issue here is that Ubuntu has a series of specific language and locale patches that Budgie Control Center does not currently work against.
 * The patch is taken directly from the current v41 version of GNOME Control Center on jammy and refreshed to remove the fuzz.
 * This patch in itself has been carried by Ubuntu since 2019 so its been well tested.
 * the risk here is that the patch introduces additional issues in Budgie Control Center - an app that is specific to Budgie and no other desktop environment.
 * The risk is deemed low by the team since Budgie Control Center and GNOME Control Center are forked from the same code base
 * Budgie Control Center does not carry all the Ubuntu specific patching. I have examined the ubuntu patchwork and the only other patch we don't carry is the addition of the button to launch gnome-language-selector. This isnt needed by Budgie since the app is available from our menu.

 * The package itself has been tested by the Ubuntu Budgie team via a specific test PPA https://launchpad.net/~ubuntubudgie-dev/+archive/ubuntu/budgie-control-center switching from Dutch to english and back to Dutch

 * From a regression mitigation, Budgie already has gnome-control-center installed - just not visible to users. That can be used via the command line to perform any issues that we deem as a regression until things are resolved.

[Other Info]

 * N/A

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ubuntu-bug budgie-control-center --> I can´t change the language from English (united States) to Português (Portugal) --> And when I try and press the Select button, don’t work and change the format to United States.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: budgie-control-center 1.0.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-25.25-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
Date: Mon Apr 25 19:14:18 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-24 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Budgie 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
SourcePackage: budgie-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

workaround

run from a terminal

gnome-control-center region

change the language

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Francisco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted budgie-control-center into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-control-center/1.0.1-2ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Francisco Reis (franciscoreis)]

Test OK

budgie-control-center 1.0.1-2ubuntu1

In Budgie Control Center --> Region & Language --> I have changed the Language field and also the Formats field, from English to Portuguese, and from Portuguese to English, first the language, then the format, but also tested first the format and then the language.

All test result are OK

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-control-center - 1.0.1-2ubuntu1

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budgie-control-center (1.0.1-2ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Bug-fix
    Adapt GCC ubuntu specific language & region chooser to ensure
    language & locale selection is displayed and able to choose from
    (LP: #1970255)

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:06:18 +0100

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for budgie-control-center has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.