Subject: SetLanguage call from LightDM
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:15:59 +0100
From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson
To: Robert Ancell

Hi Robert,

Hope the holidays have been pleasant for you.

Given that you may make some changes due to
https://launchpad.net/bugs/904395 I thought I'd take the opportunity to
address another aspect on the SetLanguage call.

The language chooser is now working well in Ubuntu. However, if $HOME is
encrypted or in a separate partition, the call for SetLanguage happens
before $HOME is available.

In a pending accountsservice MP I propose that an attempt to change the
language in those situations does not change anything, neither in the
keyfile nor ~/.pam_environment (so they are kept in sync). Instead a
dialog is displayed once logged in where the user is prompted to set the
language from "System Settings".

What I wonder is if the SetLanguage call somehow can be postponed til
$HOME is available. That way the language chooser would work even with
an encrypted $HOME etc., and without a need to mess with a cache file or
something again...

Would be great if that could be done.

Best regards,

/ Gunnar