Sadly, it is really anoying of not having this option set default... Here's a good reason for hat:
At my office, for multiple reasons, we are using KDE into our operational environment. We have a full french/english setup and KDE allows to switch between both languages perfectly fine BUT: There is no way to force GTK applications to also run in the language choosen by the user unless it internally has specific options for it. Therefore, if the system wide language is set to english, french users will have to manually set the language into OpenOffice (since it does have such option) while they will have to be stuck with an english firefox & gimp & mostly every other gtk apps. Same goes the other way around... Since the user using the desktop is never the same each day, the language varies depending of who's sitting at that specific desk all the time. So we are stuck at having one of the two languages not fully functional. How can I properly get around this issue without having a language chooser at the login screen that will set all background locales properly at login time? For this specific reason I am strongly suggesting for a return of this option into GDM as it was default and working well in previous ubuntu releases up until this is finally set by default into lightdm: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/1015114 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/803858 Title: No language chooser on login screen in LightDM Status in Light Display Manager: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: LightDM doesn't appear to have a language selection choice in the Login screen, we need this to switch between Chinese and English for regular use, this feature is present in GDM, and we are really want to have it in LightDm as well, including correct setup of the zh_CN.utf-8 locale. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/803858/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
