cannot edit gnome menus (alacarte)

[muyiwa]

I run an Ubuntu 9.04 32bit system. since version 8.10, i have not been able to edit my gnome menus. whenever i right click on the gnome panel and click on "Edit Menus", nothing comes up. running alacarte on the command line, i get this message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
    app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 50, in __init__
    self.editor = MenuEditor()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 35, in __init__
    self.locale = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 478, in getdefaultlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 410, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: en_NG

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

The problem is here: unknown locale: en_NG

I checked with Google. and apparently this is a long standing issue effecting many packages. The documented workaround is to change from English (Nigeria) to English (United States) for the system language.

[muyiwa (muyiwa-iyowu)]

thanks. i just changed to English United Kingdom and it now works. i guess this is still a bug though and should be fixed especially if it affects other languages that are not English.

[nemanja radeta (nemanjaradeta-deactivatedaccount)]

Same with sr_RS.
x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.04

There was same problem with software-center but it's solved in Lucid Lynx.

[Ladislav Urošević (urosldp)]

Confirmed with sr_RS. Solution is to open alacarte with LANG=en_US alacarte. Output is

LANG=en_US alacarte

(process:1638): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.

 Using the fallback 'C' locale.