Comment 7 for bug 434351

Thanks for keeping sharing your ideas, André! I comment on some of them
below.

On 2010-12-10 22:38, André Pirard wrote:
> A second, different table was introduced, with similar inconvenience
> (and solution) as the first one. In fact, it duplicates (and extends)
> the choices proposed by GDM at login time. And, with the first
> implementation of this I saw, the two methods were conflicting.

Yes they were and still are conflicting. However, the past few weeks
I've worked on that particular issue, and a solution is about to be
uploaded any day now (bug 553162). It would be great if you could
install the versions of language-selector and gdm that include the
fixes:
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/locale-test
and check out if you think the conflicts are properly dealt with.

> Plus lack of documentation, the fact that all those Englishes and
> Spanishes, are the same, the user thinks that he is facing complete
> nonsense.

Yes, there are far too many menu items for choosing languages. Ideally
there should be one item per available translation.

> Separating language from other locale is welcome. It would be even
> more welcome to specify them in detail to, for example, use the
> by-language default but specify the date as yy-mm-dd.

That would be quite a different approach compared to selecting locale,
and would need to be done in respective application.

Cheers,

Gunnar