Comment 12 for bug 857326

On 2011-09-28 08:38, Bernard Decock wrote:
> First of all, I can see that chinese is installed in Lubuntu as well
> as in Linux Mint Katya (See screendumps).

Wait now... I take it that it _looks like_ Chinese is installed (in language-selector's "Language" tab), while it's actually _not_ installed as shown in LanguageSelectorLanguagesInstalled.jpg. Is that what you mean?

> Notice that my preferred language = ducth (nederlands) and this
> language is active, but is greyed out?

So while you would have expected the black items

  Nederlands
  English

at the top of the list, the only item displayed in black is English? It makes me guess that you use v. 0.52 of language-selector and that it's due to a bug that only appeared in that version. Can you please upgrade to language-selector 0.54, so we can sort out this part of the confusion?

> When I start the language-selector after reboot, I get a crash (bug
> 859961).

Hmm.. Are you really sure it's a bug #859961 type of crash? I ask because that bug only appears in v. 0.53.

> ll /usr/share/locale-langpack reveals that nor "deutsch" nor
> "chinese" is installed.

Right.

> After regenerating the locales, both "deutsch" and "chineses" are
> still in the selector

That's a mystery, considering that neither Chinese nor German locales were generated according to LanguageInstaller2.jpg.

Can you please let us know what the following commands outputs:

  locale -a

  cd /var/lib/locales/supported.d; cat $(ls)

>>> After logging off, the preferred laguage wansn't changed. One has
>>> to reboot the system before it's getting changed
>>
>> No, that's a misconception. If you change the user language from
>> Dutch to English and log out, you end up at the login screen. If
>> you log in again instantly, you should see English as the display
>> language.
>
> Actually I switched the preferred language, logged off and logged
> back in. Language wasn't changed. Only after reboot did the changes
> take place (can't test this now, because the language-selector-dialog
> doesn't react on a selection). When I changed the language, I pressed
> "apply systemwide"-button. (Maybe this option requires a reboot?)

I suggest that we postpone our talking about this issue.

For now I'd appreciate if you could upgrade language-selector to v. 0.54 and answer my questions above.