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[Iain Lane <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When was this API added to gnome-desktop?

Fine if this really isn't used by anything still.

** Changed in: gnome-desktop3 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479907

Title:
  [Ffe] Support installing Language packs from gnome-control-center

Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  Confirmed
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in gnome-desktop3 package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Since we don't ship language-selector-gnome in Ubuntu GNOME there is
  currently no way for users to install language packs. Currently they
  would only be installed when doing a non-English install, after
  installation the only way is for the user to install language-
  selector.

  We want to allow for users to be able to install language packs via
  the gnome-control-center region panel. I had a set of patches from
  3.6/3.8 era that implemented this, and got quite a bit of testing, but
  sat and bit-rot until now. The packagekit code, which is the bulk of
  the changes was well tested back then.

  Basically there are two patches to gnome-control-center:
  1. provides an API for installing language packs using packagekit what provides and the 'Modify' dbus helpers.
  2. Integrates this into the UI, I've hi-jacked the "More Languages" dialog this time, which provides much simpler integration than the previous approach, technically that breaks UI Freeze, but currently it's completely disabled, so shouldn't be a problem documentation wise, not that we have any documentation really.

  gnome-desktop requires a simple one liner patch, that changes the
  format of the locale code strings sent to g-c-c, I suppose this could
  be considered breaking API, but that API was added specifically for
  this feature and has been unused the last few cycles.

  Changes are staged on: ppa:ubuntu-gnome-packaging/staging

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