Using drakxtools-1.1.9-34mdk.i586.rpm 3 things: 1) localedrake asks the user for his/her password in order to log out. When running localedrake from the shell, this is not a problem since the password prompt appears in the shell. However, this also means that when the user changes the language settings in the KDE control center and localedrake pops up, the user can't enter the password. Why on earth is the password needed anyway?
2) Why is localedrake in /usr/sbin? This seems like a per-user utility and not to be restricted to the sys-admin. 3) Things are getting more and more complicated for multilingual users. In order to be able to type in Japanese text but keep the UI in English, I have to: a) Go to the KDE control center [Contry & language], change the country to Japan and keep it open. b) Then localedrake pops up, I select Japanese, click ok. Then localedrake asks me if I want to log out, I click cancel. c) Change the country to C in the control center. d) Then localedrake pops up again, click cancel. e) Click OK in the control center f) Then localedrake pops up yet again, click cancel. g) Edit ~/.i18n and change LC_MESSAGES from ja to C. Even if you don't write a single new line of code for multilingual users, please don't write the code for single language users in such a way that it makes life difficult for the others. Narfi.
