Progress has been made, and this is a short update.
Ubuntu 11.10 was shipped with a language chooser in lightdm-gtk-greeter.
Thanks, Robert!
Unfortunately - due to time restraints - the chooser is currently broken
as regards Ubuntu; see https://launchpad.net/bugs/868346
A proposed fix is
På Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:53:33 +0200, skrev Christopher James Halse Rogers
r...@ubuntu.com:
Rovanion in #ubuntu-devel brought to me a problem that's related to the
lack of language selector - we also don't have a keyboard selector. I
don't think I've seen this discussed before, and I think it
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 15:53 -0500, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
Rovanion in #ubuntu-devel brought to me a problem that's related to the
lack of language selector - we also don't have a keyboard selector. I
don't think I've seen this discussed before, and I think it should be
Rovanion in #ubuntu-devel brought to me a problem that's related to the
lack of language selector - we also don't have a keyboard selector. I
don't think I've seen this discussed before, and I think it should be
addressed.
The problem description here is:
You have a multi-user system with
On mer., 2011-08-24 at 15:35 +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
Hi,
I was testing oneiric alpha releases, found several problems with
keyboard maps and locale settings, tried to report them as bugs, and
ran against a wall of ignorance, probably errected by
ubuntu/canonical.
Thank you for your
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 15:35 +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
Hi,
I was testing oneiric alpha releases, found several problems with
keyboard maps and locale settings, tried to report them as bugs, and
ran against a wall of ignorance, probably errected by
ubuntu/canonical. I then came to bug
On 09/07/11 19:23, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
1. For users who change display language once in a while - for whatever
reason - it provides a more convenient way for doing so than doing it
from the Language Support UI or its successor. There is a fresh bug
report about it, btw:
After having reviewed this thread, there are a few things I'd like to
highlight:
Language chooser
As regards the language chooser on the login screen, it basically serves
two purposes:
1. For users who change display language once in a while - for whatever
reason
On 05/07/11 19:11, Oliver Grawert wrote:
Note that this doesn't necessarily have to be implemented in the
greeter, i.e. you can run zenity in the guest accounts .profile and that
prompts the user on login for language. Or you can make multiple
sessions for each installed language, i.e. there
a feeling that you to some extent think
of code that is there for other reasons than the language chooser on the
login screen. And a better organized code would make it easier to support.
Think of how you would answer this question from a user:
How do I change my language?
Would the answer be - from
hi,
Am Dienstag, den 05.07.2011, 13:43 +1000 schrieb Robert Ancell:
On 04/07/11 17:41, Oliver Grawert wrote:
... pretty much every environment edubuntu is used in (public desktops
in school classrooms at universities or libraries), non personalized
computers in multilingual companies,
hi,
Am Montag, den 04.07.2011, 12:44 +1000 schrieb Robert Ancell:
I haven't heard of any standard user requirements to switch between
more than two languages, or two languages that do not include English
(please post here if you know of any).
well, just some of these environments ubuntu has
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Robert Ancell wrote on 04/07/11 03:44:
If you change the display language within a session, it does not take
effect in that session, but only after you have logged out and
logged in again. The language setting is one of the few things that
works
happened?
On 2011-07-04 04:44, Robert Ancell wrote:
On 2011-07-03 08:01, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
Those who typically make use of the language chooser on the login screen
are reasonably users who alter between two or more display languages.
Maybe that group is a small share of the Ubuntu
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:44 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote:
From what I've gathered talking to people the classes of user are:
1. Users who set the system language at install/first boot time, and
never change it (the vast majority)
2. English as a second language users, who switch between their
hi,
Am Montag, den 04.07.2011, 11:11 +0100 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas:
I haven't heard of any standard user requirements to switch between
more than two languages, or two languages that do not include English
(please post here if you know of any).
well, just some of these environments
Le lundi 04 juillet 2011 à 11:11 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit :
Robert Ancell wrote on 04/07/11 03:44:
If you change the display language within a session, it does not take
effect in that session, but only after you have logged out and
logged in again. The language setting is one of
On 04/07/11 21:57, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:44 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote:
From what I've gathered talking to people the classes of user are:
1. Users who set the system language at install/first boot time, and
never change it (the vast majority)
2. English as a second
On 04/07/11 20:11, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
Robert Ancell wrote on 04/07/11 03:44:
If you change the display language within a session, it does not take
effect in that session, but only after you have logged out and
logged in again. The language setting is one of the few things that
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 13:06 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote:
On 04/07/11 21:57, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:44 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote:
From what I've gathered talking to people the classes of user are:
1. Users who set the system language at install/first boot time, and
On 04/07/11 21:00, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
I take it that you would like to see a solid base for decision that we
do not have access to. Given that, to me the natural conclusion is that
Ubuntu keeps providing the feature for now.
For a feature to exist, it needs a justification. I see no
Marc Deslauriers [2011-07-04 23:29 -0400]:
If the administrator can set the default language when creating a new
user, it should be fine.
I agree. With that, and the fact that the majority of use cases are
already covered by the system wide default locale/language, I see
little reason for
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 07:06 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
Marc Deslauriers [2011-07-04 23:29 -0400]:
If the administrator can set the default language when creating a new
user, it should be fine.
I agree. With that, and the fact that the majority of use cases are
already covered by the
I have discussed briefly with a couple of developers whether there
should be a language chooser on the login screen, and we believe it's a
suitable topic for this list.
The background is that GDM has provided a language chooser for a long
time, but GNOME has (for unclear reasons) dropped
that works that way.
Yes, it's an unfortunate limitation of the system we use.
Those who typically make use of the language chooser on the login screen
are reasonably users who alter between two or more display languages.
Maybe that group is a small share of the Ubuntu users, but to them it's
much
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