-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 hi Yup, that solved it. That was very helpful. I'll file a bug against gnome shell for the language list, if there isn't one already. For some reason I seem to remember filing a bug already, but I'll look. Thanks Kendell clark Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 01:27 -0500, kendell clark wrote: >> hi all This may have been covered here before, and if so I >> apologize for the >> >> mess. I've been getting a couple of blind users who switch over >> from windows to fedora, or at least, they say they will. But they >> speak multiple languages, and usually want to have gnome shell >> and apps displayed in their native language. So I went and >> attempted to find out how this is done. Here is what I've found, >> and it's puzzling. According to gnome's docs, you simply go into >> the region and language control center applet, highlight the >> language you want to use, and press enter. If the language isn't >> in the list you're supposed to find a "..." button to open a >> list of languages to pick from. On my fedora install, there are >> only two items in the list. > > That's strange; there are nine languages in my list. > >> English US, and an item that's silent. Orca says nothing but I >> think it's that "..." button the docs >> >> were talking about. Instead of taking me to a list, it closes the >> language dialog with no effect. > > OK, this is a bug. That button only works when you click it with a > mouse, but when you select it with the keyboard and then hit Enter, > it closes the dialog. > > We also need an accessible label for the ... button. > >> I know how locales on the command line are supposed to work, >> you've got two files in /etc that control this. >> >> Locale.gen, which controls what languages are available to the >> system. I chose german and french, utf8, just to experiment with. >> Then there's locale.conf which controls the currently active >> language. You simply >> >> export a new language into this file and the language is supposed >> to change. Example, export lang=en_UK.utf-8 > /etc/locale.conf." >> Is this >> >> what gnome's language control center item does? > > If you're an administrator, or if you're not an administrator and > you click the Login Screen button, then it will use localed to set > the system language. It's the equivalent of the command 'localectl > set -locale', which will modify /etc/locale.conf for you. > > If you're not an administrator and don't click the Login Screen > button, then it changes your user account's language settings with > accountsservice, which are used to set $LANG when logging in to > GNOME Shell. > > Keep in mind that in order for the change to system language to > take effect on the login screen, you'd have to restart your > computer, and for the change to take effect in GNOME Shell, you'd > have to log out and log in again. > >> I'm hearing a lot about these "language packs" in gnome's >> documentation, but no matter how I search, dnf, software, I can't >> find one. Anyone got any ideas? After I added french and german >> in locale.gen, or rather, uncommented them and ran locale-gen, >> the languages immediately showed up in the language list, but >> pressing enter on them didn't change the language. I'm hoping >> it's something obvious, such as you needing to log out and back >> in for the new language to take effect. If not, this is probably >> a bug in gnome and I need to report it. Thanks for reading >> Kendell clark > > It's the same problem that affects the ... button: pressing enter > does not select the new language as you would expect; instead it > closes the dialog without changing your language. So it's a bug. > Please CC me when you report it, thanks. > > Michael > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVluHAAAoJEGYgJ5/kqBTdzdMP/3A9gpNm4HTHbK1/StvKpK+r 8HSNIPsIjxm2xGHvHxEtGh4mCYo3HhAWdqO+OOyfaZoKu8WRmMuXBKEaaBvcL9x7 fa9B5UI6XrfwJn0SgKGM+tp2C+CX69X1q+HmjN2dvr1zXpeCsbiRv6v+/hfSkvgs uLenfxE8z2hIpDQCichFWr0tnU9bpfY71/J9rfmY1VZ4JhThBskmvA+6JYT5CcMQ 2sVvZImpJ98WsbkLHeKRrsgoD4isSeDLK+PxCP8ASH5TPBeSkZAngILtqiY+sg4S oT4V+mbYlo22n+XHhYDqQvy0d4YKShBSiWdJzuV49BWsGiZfaNZktFkm+pz6c+fH eMVgxCZOl/u6zEKQn46L5A9wzZmCg8bgHnyRjLhzh501vTFtHVrp8TR5SPPKTrbl VIaPk35uYS7731J4xBAP63NkYbGeVHNtxrt4Ieju4ZpdP46bDGPiHW26xCezx1wv 1ZJa5jQfVo1r4v6/cJSRwjteEV76ohuJrEeUbscFB9DBoV9xitrKYohHIFSHew+u FOFq/5xewLBUDY+gyo9OCewjoL50R5EKPHcD22mu0uwtYTzOHYvEoSytulbV/cOj p9Wo1y86RY9yhL4wC0opFAaIlTe+YFomwB6ofYgBeA76iRzrLueFMmzvRfVpCVdx KZJc0iNnblCVM0U5vWF0 =HA9P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
