Thanks Gunnar for the explanation, I see now where I misunderstood the GUI.
Jeremy as pretty much hit the point as to what my misunderstanding was. Let the paraphrase what my intention was choosing this setup. What I intended to say to Ubuntu was: "Use the English language everywhere, and if there's a difference between UK and US English, please utilize the US variant. Only in the (very rare) cases, where there's *no English translation at all* available, among all other languages, chose the German translation." Please tell me how I would indicate this choice with the existing GUI. To phrase it the other way round: My expectation was that "English (US)" contains all the usual English strings, with only small variations where there's a difference between UK and US English. It's not at all obvious that "English (US)" only contains the strings that differ from "English". The only way that this language set makes sense is to *always* chose "English" as the second language. And if this is so, the content of "English" could as well be included into "English (US)". I believe that this should be changed (as Jeremy suggested). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1084745 Title: Gnome displays wrong language Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Gnome displays German language, although English (US) is selected as primary language. See attached screenshot. (I have rebooted twice since setting language to English). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gnome 1:3.0+6ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Nov 29 22:38:03 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-11-28 (732 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: meta-gnome3 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-20 (39 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1084745/+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
