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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <857326@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your effort to improve Ubuntu by reporting those
observations!

On 2011-09-23, Bernard Decock wrote:
> 1. When I set English as the preferred language after I installed
> Lubuntu with preferred language = dutch, the dutch gets grayed out in
> the menu?? (Although it is still installed).

Yes, that's by design.

I recommend that you click the "Help" button in the Language Support
window for a description of how it's supposed to work. Since English is
always available, a list with fallback languages would be pointless,
wouldn't it?

> After logging off, the preferred laguage wansn't changed. One has to
> reboot the system before it's getting changed

No, that's a misconception. If you change the user language from Dutch
to English and log out, you end up at the login screen. If you log in
again instantly, you should see English as the display language.

The display language of the login screen, OTOH, is controlled by the
_system_ language. If you change that, you do need to reboot.

> 2. The menu shows uninstalled languages (such as chinese? and
deutsch??)

As regards Chinese, there is a known issue, i.e. if you have Chinese
installed, the menu item doesn't disappear if you remove it. As far as I
know, there is no similar problem with German.

Could you please execute the command

  ll /usr/share/locale-langpack

from a terminal window. If the output includes a 'de' folder, German is
installed.

If you don't see a 'zh_CN' folder, you are right about Chinese. In that
case, you should be able to make the Chinese menu item go away by
running this command from a terminal window:

  sudo locale-gen --purge

Please let us know whether the above comments are sufficient to clarify
the matters you brought up.

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857326

Title:
  Selecting another preferred language in Lubuntu is confusing

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The menu for selecting another preferred language seems to be
  confusing or is buggy.

  1. When I set English as the preferred language after I installed Lubuntu with preferred language = dutch,
  the dutch gets grayed out in the menu?? (Although it is still installed). After logging off, the preferred
  laguage wansn't changed. One has to reboot the system before it's getting changed

  2. The menu shows uninstalled languages (such as chinese? and
  deutsch??)

  3. When Dutch is selected back as the preferred language, then both Dutch and English are displayed in black (which
  is ok)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lxdm 0.4.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Sep 23 14:11:39 2011
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110830.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=nl:en
   LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: lxdm
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.lxdm.lxdm.conf: 2011-09-02T16:01:26.397322

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