New users should have the system default locale, not the admin one

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

New users are created with the admin's current language (the value of the LC_MESSAGES environment variable) as the initial language. It would make more sense IMO to let the system language, as set in /etc/default/locale, serve as the initial language at user creation.

I suppose that 'the culprit' is the cc_common_language_get_current_language() function in panels/common/cc-common-language.c. Personally I question the adequateness of that function, so one idea would be to replace it with e.g. a cc_default_system_language() function that parses /etc/default/locale.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, Rodrigo what do you think?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Even if the problem is still present in gnome-control-center, supposedly affecting GNOME users, it no longer shows up in Ubuntu. This is due to recently uploaded changes to the Ubuntu specific patches in accountsservice.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/0.6.15-2ubuntu3

Now, when you in Ubuntu query accountsservice for the Language, and the Language property has not yet been set, accountsservice returns a sensible fallback value (typically the system language) instead of the empty string. For that reason the questionable cc_common_language_get_current_language() function is never called.