Unity: Name of Guest account not internationalized

[Robin]

Steps to reproduce:

Login on a guest session
Click on logout from guest session

Result:

There is a dialog, asking whether you're sure to log out. "Auf Wiedersehen, Guest. Sind Sie sicher, dass sie alle Programme schließen und sich von Ihrem Konto abmelden möchten?"

In this string "Guest" is not translated to "Gast".

Using Ubuntu 13.04
Locale: German, Germany

[Phillip Sz (phillip-sz)]

I think its not a translation problem, because the translation of the string (https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+source/unity/+pots/unity/de/241/+translate) is right. I think the problem is that the account-name »Guest« is not translatable, so its a general problem and not a German translation problem.

[Robin (r-ehl)]

Yes, I think so too. There should be a translation of this default account name!

[Hendrik Schrieber (hennekn)]

It is a localization problem. Unity is fetching the user name (or real name?) from GnomeManager. The name of the guest account however seems not to be localized so it just shows up as the English guest.

Unity developers: Please add localization for the name of the guest account if possible.

[Carsten Gerlach (carsteng)]

This bug still exists. Which would be the right package, where we have to put this bug report?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I think this issue is best fixed in lightdm. Made a merge proposal.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

The lightdm solution I propose makes the temporary guest account's real name translated to begin with, i.e. it's the translation of "Guest" that will be saved in the /etc/passwd entry. This should do it in most cases.

However..

If you customize the guest session feature in such a way that a guest session is started with some other language but the system wide language in /etc/default/locale, there will be a mix of languages in the logout dialog. This disadvantage could be avoided if this bug was fixed in Unity instead.

OTOH I suppose it's good to not spread guest session related hacks all over.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.11.5-0ubuntu1

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lightdm (1.11.5-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Make PAM services configurable (LP: #1348251)
  * debian/guest-account:
  * debian/lightdm.install:
  * debian/rules:
  * debian/patches/05_translate_debian_files.patch:
    - Make the real name of a guest account translatable (LP: #1177713)
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 13:40:46 +1200