Fedora 16 XFCE spin language problem

[SilvioTO]

On January I installed Fedora 16 xfce spin on my desktop (x86_64) and 
laptop (i686) with respective dvd's and in both pc I set the system 
language to italian.
All went ok, except for Thunar: at the first launch it is in italian; if 
closed and reopened it change language and remain in english for the 
rest of session. The folders shortcuts "Documents, Download", etc, is 
always in english.

I opened a forum post too: 
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=274735
and a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771880

Thanks for your help.

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2012, 09:18 +0100 schrieb SilvioTO:
>  On January I installed Fedora 16 xfce spin on my desktop (x86_64) and
>
>  laptop (i686) with respective dvd's and in both pc I set the system 
>  language to italian. 
What does 'cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n' return?

>  All went ok, except for Thunar: at the first launch it is in italian;
> if 
>  closed and reopened it change language and remain in english for the 
>  rest of session. 
Is "Thunar --deamon" running when you log in? Is it still running after
you close a Thunar window?

>  The folders shortcuts "Documents, Download", etc, is 
>  always in english. 
This is handled through xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update. Is it executed on
login?

Kind regards,
Christoph

[SilvioTO]

Good news:

I executed command "xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update", and the folders in 
italian was added.
I moved my data and deleted the english folders.
I put the command "xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update" to run on login automatically.

Reboot and now all are ok, thunar is always in italian.

A big thanks!

---------------

P.S. However, I think this is a bug, and I think to be solved in the 
future versions of the Fedora Xfce spin. I love this spin, make it perfect!

;-)

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2012, 10:31 +0100 schrieb SilvioTO:
>  Good news:
>  
>  I executed command "xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update", and the folders in 
>  italian was added.
>  I moved my data and deleted the english folders. 
They should be renamed, so there is no need to move any data.

>  I put the command "xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update" to run on
> login automatically. 
It should be executed automatically already:
rpm -ql xdg-user-dirs-gtk | grep autostart
/etc/xdg/autostart/user-dirs-update-gtk.desktop

>  Reboot and now all are ok, thunar is always in italian.
>  
>  A big thanks!
>  
>  ---------------
>  
>  P.S. However, I think this is a bug, and I think to be solved in the 
>  future versions of the Fedora Xfce spin. I love this spin, make it perfect! 
Glad we managed to help you, but we cannot really fix a bug if you do
not provide the feedback we have asked you for. We need to figure out
what went wrong on your system.

Kind regards,
Christoph

[SilvioTO]

You are right, isn't a bug; thinking better I remember that at the end 
of installation, there was the folders in english and in italian in my 
home. Brobably confused and the first time with xfce, I deleted the 
wrong folders and/or renamed improperly. Deleting the command at login 
that I put some minutes ago the result is the same: thunar is and stay 
in italian.

Anyway, the output of commands that you suggest are:

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="it_IT.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Thunar --deamon is running at login and is running if thunar is closed.


Problem solved. Thanks again.

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2012, 11:13 +0100 schrieb SilvioTO:
>  You are right, isn't a bug; thinking better I remember that at
> the end 
>  of installation, there was the folders in english and in italian in my 
>  home. Brobably confused and the first time with xfce, I deleted the 
>  wrong folders and/or renamed improperly. Deleting the command at login 
>  that I put some minutes ago the result is the same: thunar is and stay 
>  in italian. 
Ah, now that you mention it I remember the problem: Thunar uses
~/.config/user-dirs.locale rather than the environment variable LANG to
determine which locale to use. This seems to cause a lot of confusion
for many people as a quick google search reveals:
https://www.google.com/search?q=~%2F.config%2Fuser-dirs.locale+thunar

However there is not much we can do about it other than making sure that
xdg-user-dirs-(gtk-)update us run on login.

Kind regards,
Christoph

[SilvioTO]

Il 15/03/2012 12:57, Christoph Wickert ha scritto:
>  Ah, now that you mention it I remember the problem: Thunar uses
>  ~/.config/user-dirs.locale rather than the environment variable LANG to
>  determine which locale to use. 
Interesting... in fact, on this forum: 
http://forum.fedoraonline.it/viewtopic.php?id=17173&p=4
other users had my same problem.
The discussion is marked as solved with this solution:

adding " it_IT " instead of " en_EN " inside /home/" your user
name 
"/.config/user-dirs.locale

I don't be able to evaluate if is a problem only of XFCE or The Fedora 
XFCE spin in general.

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2012, 14:17 +0100 schrieb SilvioTO:
>  I don't be able to evaluate if is a problem only of XFCE or The
> Fedora 
>  XFCE spin in general. 
It's an Xfce problem that affects all distributions.

Kind regards,
Christoph