Hi Gunnar, On 12/02/2010 05:36 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > On 2010-11-30 17:43, Arne Goetje wrote: >> The code in language-selector is a bit hackish and unprofessional, since >> Iʼm not an experience programmer or python coder ... > > Maybe that's the reason why I'm fairly comfortable with the code. ;-)
heh. :) >> and this whole thing more or less got dumped on me and I was under >> pressure to deliver features in time for the Ubuntu release. :( > > You have made great contributions, AFAICT. Thanks, it's nice to hear that once in a while. :) >> KDE has it's own means to handle the desktop language separate from the >> system locale, and therefor the QT version on language-selector does not >> include this functionality. The QT version of l-s is embedded in the >> regular KDE language handling interface, so duplicating this >> functionality would be counter-productive. > > That was especially clarifying to me. > > I can see that LANG and LANGUAGE have been written to > /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment also for KDE users. I'm > suggesting that also LC_MESSAGES is written to those files, and so far I > have assumed that that change would at least not be a problem for KDE. > Are you able to tell whether my assumption is correct? That should be correct. >> Thanks for taking over the language-selector development, btw. ;) > > Well, that's not exactly what I'm doing. Don't consider myself qualified > for such a commitment. So far my goal has been to help solve the issues > in this bug report. he he, it was meant to be ironic. :) Sadly, that was what happened to me. I started to make some contributions and suddenly the whole project was dumped on me, although it was never my intention to take over the whole project. > I'd be happy to keep contributing as a member of some formal or informal > l-s team, though. Your participation in such a team on a volunteer, less > demanding basis would be much appreciated. If I can find time to do that, I'd be happy to help out. But I don't have much time, since I have two young and demanding kids at home. But yes, it would be nice to have a team to take over this project. Cheers Arne -- Arne Götje (高盛華) <[email protected]> PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553162 Title: Set $LANGUAGE if the user picks a different locale in gdm, so that language-selector and gdm stop disagreeing -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
