I have no idea what you are talking about with your reference to GNUstep. GNUstep has nothing to do with GNOME. GNOME does not have a means to switch language - it's as simple as that! Specifying one language is not an even acceptable solution for a modern desktop system. Many users speak multiple languages and have a preferred order of languages that should be used if possible. KDE has such a feature and GNOME needs an equivalent if it wants to compete with other desktop environments on the same level.
It is not just language that needs to be easily set but also currency, colors, icons, numbers and more that need to be localized. Yes I can mess around with environment variables and get half the flexibility and features that KDE offers with repect to localization but GNOME should make this achievable and easy. Telling my mum to set the LANG environment variable in her .bashrc file is rediculous! I don't want help to find a way to do this - I know how to set the env variable. That is not the point. I thought the point of GNOME and Ubuntu was to create an easy to use desktop environment and distribution for the masses.... -- There is no preferences application for localization https://launchpad.net/bugs/50843 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
