future of system-config-language with gnome

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 22 April 2013 10:15, Parag Nemade <pnemade at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Aman,
>
> On 04/21/2013 10:56 PM, A S Alam wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I was looking following bug and want do we need to add more languages in
>> s-c-l
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=954124<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954124>
>>
>> gnome-control-center has ability to switch System language (Fedora 19),
>>  now
>> - Does latest anaconda use s-c-language (or any relation with it or
>> require)?
>>
>     No
>
>  - Does it required to change system language (my system didn't have
>> any /etc/sysconf/i18n file) (with gnome)
>>
>  Yes. s-c-l still changes system language in f19. See bug 871119 which
> says "
> systemd has uses /etc/locale.conf instead of /etc/sysconfig/i18n if the
> former is present (see https://fedorahosted.org/**fesco/ticket/963<https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/963>)
> and in the future will even entirely drop the support for
> /etc/sysconfig/i18n"
>
>  - Does s-c-l only require with other than Gnome DEs? (case like ibus)
>>
>   I think other DE can use this as s-c-l also read/write to global
> /etc/locale.conf file.
>
>
>> if it is required then do we need to add test s-c-l for i18n test day
>> [2]? with Translation test day this application was provided to test.
>>
> Good to get some testing to know how Gnome language change and s-c-l
> behaves together on F19.
>  What I observed s-c-l changes system root user messages/language whereas
> Gnome language change using g-c-c changes that user's environment to new
> language including preset IM in F19 Alpha.



Agree with parag.
System config langugae definitely needed for changing system language. But
it needed some good code cleanup with the recent changes "yum lang-install".

Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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