login with kdm and home directories on nfs4

[Oron Peled]

On Tuesday, 6 בJanuary 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Oron Peled wrote:
> > My biggest gripe with kdm is that due to the way KDE handles i18n (through
> > system-settings and not environment variables), kdm does not have a
> > language selection box in it's login widget and is therefore a non-starter
> > for GNOME desktop users with i18n needs.
> 
> Well, if there's just one local language, it can be set systemwide with 
> system-config-language. The problem starts when there are users using 
> different languages sharing the same machine.

You've hit the exact use-case. When some family members from abroad
are visiting I want them to (temporarily) login using a different locale.

Rethinking, I now realize this is even more important:
 - System wide locale changing can only be done by root (me)
   while locale is a personal choice. E.g: I prefer English
   while my younger kid still need a native language desktop.

 - Changing locale with KDM + KDE-session involves: logging in,
   changing from system-settings, logging out, logging in again.
   Why not let the user select it during login?

 - The language selected in system-settings has no effect on the
   environment settings (check via the locale command). This looks
   like a bug (miss-feature?) to me.

What do you say?

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