Facebook publication dialog is in geographical language not system language

[Michael Doube]

Binary package hint: shotwell

I just tried to upload a picture using Shotwell's File > Publish command but the dialog I received from Facebook was in Finnish (where I am now) and not in English (the language I know, and which Ubuntu is set to on this laptop).

I assume that if I tried the same (with this laptop) from Sweden, I would get a Swedish dialog, Iceland, an Icelandic dialog, and so on.

So, the language locale should be set to the input language of the system and not the language of the geographic location.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: shotwell 0.7.2-0ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-rc7-linus x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 26 16:04:06 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100412)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

I agree that the dialog should appear in the system language. I've ticketed this upstream here:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3022

[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

When you say the Facebook dialog is in your geographical location, you're speaking of the Facebook web page we're hosting inside the dialog box, correct? (i.e. it's blue and white, with the Facebook logo in the corner).

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

> you're speaking of the Facebook web page we're hosting inside the dialog
> box, correct? (i.e. it's blue and white, with the Facebook logo in the
> corner).

Exactly. The dialog that looks like a Facebook web page.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue has been fixed in shotwell 0.9 so closing the bug

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

This bug still exists in Shotwell 0.9.3.

See attached screenshot showing input locale set to English but the Facebook login dialog set to German.

This is on a laptop with language set to English and located in Germany.

[Michael Doube (michael-doube)]

Actually it looks like this is fixed upstream in a later version.