dbus interface

[Tim Lunn]

Would it be possible to add a dbus interface to language-selector?

I am looking into to extending the native gnome region panel in gnome-control-center 3.8 to include support for installing language packs. It would be really useful if I could just ping language-selector to do all the hard work, listing available languages, listing required lang packs for a given language etc!

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Hi Tim!

I suppose it would be possible.

But please note that there is already a plan to make "Region & Language" capable to handle installation of languages, and then replace language-selector with "Region & Language" in standard Ubuntu.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-q-deprecate-language-selector

I think you should talk with Iain Lane about your idea (just subscribed him to this bug report).

Personally I find the idea interesting. language-selector will keep being available also when standard Ubuntu has switched to "Region & Language", since Xubuntu and Lubuntu does not use g-c-c. So if an additional GUI in "Region & Language" for handling language installations would make use of the existing code via dbus, the code for langpack handling would not need to be duplicated.

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

Oh, I hadnt actually seen that blueprint.

However it seems that the packagekit 'what-provides locale' plugin is broken currrently?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Closing since the goal has been achieved in another way.