This was just discussed in #ubuntu-desktop. The basic problem here is
that language-selector now is able to set system-wide locale settings
which gdm does not understand. gdm is only able to set a locale (i. e.
$LANG), while language-selector can set a locale and additionally a
language list (which overrides LC_MESSAGES from $LANG) in $LANGUAGE.
I think a reasonable compromise would be:
* As long as the locale picked in gdm matches the system locale, keep
$LANGUAGE, since it's explicit configuration that the admin did for this
machine, and we need to respect it. (cf. bug 407300)
* Once the user selects a different locale, $LANGUAGES should be unset.
This can be one of:
- $LANGUAGES is set system-wide, and $GDM_LANG != the system wide locale
- $LANGUAGES is set in ~/.profile, and $GDM_LANG != $LANG set from
~/.profile or ~/.dmrc
This needs to be done in /etc/gdm/Xsession.
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Triaged
** Summary changed:
- Unset $LANGUAGES if the user picks a different locale in gdm
+ Unset $LANGUAGES if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that
language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing
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Unset $LANGUAGES if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that
language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553162
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