[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#679386: Bug#679386: Bug#679386: lightdm: Language selection is ignored in session, $LANG is system default

[ian_bruce at fastmail.net]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:29:26 +0200
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:

>> Not just user-specific settings, but session-specific settings.
> 
> Eh?

The same user might want to work in different languages at various
times.

The natural place to specify this is when they log in, rather than with
some inconvenient account management utility. That would only take
effect once they logged out and then logged in again, which would be a
real nuisance.

See the discussion here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/803858

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-July/thread.html#3137

-- between multilingual users who need this feature, and unilingual
developers who Gnomeishly inform them that "you'll do as we tell you to,
and you'll like it."