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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2012-12-10 17:35, C de-Avillez wrote:
> On Monday, December 03, 2012 19:06:32 Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> Hello!
> 
> Hello!

Hi again, and thanks for your comments and for supporting my application.

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>> * Encrypted HOME should be 'unlocked' at login before calling SetLanguage
>> https://launchpad.net/bugs/957431
>>
>> I don't share the assessment by the package author, i.e. importance
>> "low". Even if the user group is limited (the bug affects only 1) users
>> with encrypted HOMEs if 2) lightdm-gtk-greeter is in use and 3) the
>> language chooser feature of the greeter is enabled), I would have given
>> this bug importance "medium" ("moderate impact on a core application").
>> You can set the user language via language-selector instead, but not
>> everyone realise that.
> 
> Agree with all.
> 
> Although I can understand the frustration -- it is, after all, only noticed by 
> people that insist in have the system set to their preferred language, so low 
> impact ;-) -- it really seems to impact only a minimal subset of users. i18n 
> aside, not really important. But I would also classify it as medium.
> 
> But this is your own bug, so we cannot really look at it as something you 
> triaged.

That's true; I'm certainly biased here.

As I mentioned, my main focus is i18n related bugs. It would be
interesting to really know the size of the group of users who want to
set a preferred language. Maybe it's larger than you think. ;-)  Also,
personally I believe that its relative size is increasing, since Ubuntu
probably expands more in countries where English is not the native language.

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj