Ubuntu
gnome-session package

Error messages when starting X Sessions may not fully adhere to language requests

Bug #267909 reported by Harrison Neal on 2008-09-08

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-session (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

On Ubuntu 8.04.1, if one language is the system default, the user chooses a different language at the GDM login prompt, and the X Session encounters a problem, the error message that appears will show the error message in the language selected, but the "OK"/"Accept" button will still be in the system default language, rather than both the message and button being in the user's chosen language. For an example of what this looks like, see the attached screenshot.

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Harrison Neal (hantwister) wrote on 2008-09-08:

Screenshot of bug. Edit (20.1 KiB, image/jpeg)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-10-09:

thank you for your bug report. what locale do you use? it looks like the gnome-session message is not translated in your language rather there

Changed in gdm:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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Harrison Neal (hantwister) wrote on 2008-10-09:

The above screenshot occurs with a system locale of Spanish (Mexico) and a user-chosen locale of English (US).

The gnome-session message is in the correct locale; it's the "OK" button that doesn't adhere to the locale chosen at the GDM prompt.

(Yes, it's trivial; 99% of the bugs I've ever reported are slight GUI glitches :) )

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-10-29:

to confirm by somebody else getting the bug

Changed in gdm:
status:	Incomplete → New

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2009-07-24

affects:

gdm (Ubuntu) → gnome-session (Ubuntu)

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2011-05-19:

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Harrison Neal (hantwister) wrote on 2011-05-19:

As far as I can tell, I can no longer reproduce that message in 11.04. If that message no longer exists in newer versions of Ubuntu, a bug in the message is a non-issue.

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote on 2022-11-11:

Bug report did not expire due to assignment.
Comment #6 seems to imply that the issue was fixed many years ago in
any case the reporter will have been using GNOME 2 which has been EOL
for some time now.