Menus for choosing language should have one option per available translation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Translations |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
gdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson | ||
language-selector (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: language-selector
There are two GUI menus in Ubuntu for selecting language: One on the GDM login screen, and one in language-selector's "Language" tab. Both show basically the locales that are currently available on the system. However, the number of available translations are often just a fraction of the number of locales. Examples: There are six German locales, but just one German translation; there are two Swedish locales, but just one Swedish translation, etc.
OTOH, as regards the language menu on GDM's login screen, there may be locale variants among the options, such as ca_ES.utf8@
Obviously this is confusing to the users, who can be assumed to expect one option per translation. Which locales, variables etc. that are used behind the scenes is not relevant to the average user.
It should be noted that the "Language" menu in the Ubuntu GDM package has only recently (as part of the solution to bug 553162) been converted from a general locale picker to a pure language picker. The reasoning in this bug report may therefore not be applicable to GDM for other distributions.
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) |
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Hi Gunnar,
I understand the rationale, but I'm not sure I understand your proposal for a fix. Could you please elaborate?
- If this is about showing all locales including variants in gdm, it should be a duplicate of bug 408474
- If this is about showing them in language-selector, IIRC, it already does.
Thanks!