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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

well

> because a launchpad bug report is always limited to a single packet

is wrong, you can use "also affect distribution" and pick any other
source in Ubuntu

> it has not been fixed so far, so I considered this bug as being
ignored and hoped that someone other than you would deal with i

wrong again, the issue is a manpower one, adding bugs report will not
fix that

> I am under the impression that a particular class of bug reports is
rigorously ignored by ubuntu to follow their new desktop ideology.

no, the number of people working on bugs is just a magnitude lower than
the number of people have issues or requests

you can also stress your issues with it, the fact is that you are the
first and only one to have reported the bug so far, the multilogin on a
same userdir is a corner case situation and you can use another dm (gdm
for example) or lightdm with a gtk greeter and the language selector
turned on (there is one in the lightdm gtk greeter). lightdm doesn't aim
at handling all the corner cases possibles in its first version and we
are happy for users who have specific needs to keep using gdm which is
still supported

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/893568

Title:
  Language/Locale setting broken by design

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Hi,

  the settings for languages and locales used to sit in the login
  manager under earlier versions of ubuntu.

  With lightdm, this setting was moved out of the dm into the desktop
  session, but that's broken by design, because the tool to change the
  language settings silently modifies the user's ~/.profile, which
  breaks my profile (shared between different computers and operating
  systems) and is, btw. buggy, because it changes all occurences of the
  environment settings and not just the intened ones (e.g. in a case-
  structure). Can't be used.

  As a result, the decision to move the language settings from the login
  manager to the desktop broke the language settings.

  There should be a separate file for this included by some mechanmism
  in /etc/X11/session.d and not abuse the profile.

  It is really, really bad, ugly, and error prone design to
  automatically change the .profile. Never ever do that, under no
  circumstances. Really bad design, bad decision.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Nov 22 14:12:08 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111011)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/tcsh
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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