<div dir="ltr">Hi Jiri,<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Jiri Eischmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eischmann@redhat.com" target="_blank">eischmann@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
I wonder if any spin is still using system-config-language. GNOME has<br>
its own graphical utility to install language support, but AFAIK there<br>
is no counterpart in other environments, right?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>system-config-language is a distro specific tool. It just installs required packages and set the root user language. I find this tool useful where you don't need to find particular fonts or input methods explicitly and install them. Good for novice users. GNOME language support is a different from system-config-language. <br>
</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The problem is that system-config-language is completely broken since<br>
F18 (see [1] because it didn't reflect changes in language groups.<br></blockquote><div><br>system-config-language is used to install language support that includes
fonts, input-method engine and any other packages listed for that
language group in comps file. Since comps moved to start using
yum-langpacks and few language support groups have been removed,
system-config-language failed to install support for those languages. If we decide to re-write this tool for yum-langpacks then other packages will not get pulled automatically which have been explicitly listed in comps for some languages.<br>
<br></div><div>I still have not got solution on how to balance this in system-config-language.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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So if there is no spin using it, we should probably remove it from<br>
Fedora because in the current state, it's completely broken and useless.<br></blockquote><div></div><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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If there is still need for the utility, then it probably should be<br>
fixed.<br></blockquote><div><br>I am looking into fixing system-config-language but not sure how much time will it take. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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BTW what are recommended ways to install language support in e.g. KDE<br>
and Xfce? Is there any other graphical way other than<br>
system-config-language?<br>
<br>
Jiri<br>
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[1] <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901831" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901831</a><br>
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</font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br>Parag <br></div></div><br></div></div></div>