309029 – No way for user to change his language (without changing system language)

Bug 309029 - No way for user to change his language (without changing system language)

Summary: No way for user to change his language (without changing system language)

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219552

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Product:	openSUSE 10.3
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Usability (show other bugs)
Version:	Beta 3
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Minor (vote)
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Reported:	2007-09-09 00:31 UTC by Petr Baudis
Modified:	2007-09-09 18:28 UTC (History)
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Description Petr Baudis 2007-09-09 00:31:58 UTC

I didn't find a GUI way for user to change his personal language independent of the system language (and for changing the system language the user needs root password, obviously). I assume that the dialog for changing locale is something so important that we surely have it and it's only well-hidden somewhere and needs to be better accessible - or is it?

Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2007-09-09 06:45:40 UTC

What desktop/login manager are you using?

Comment 2 Petr Baudis 2007-09-09 14:11:53 UTC

GNOME/gdm

Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2007-09-09 16:22:15 UTC

IIRC for GNOME you can/have to choose your user language at the login manager.

Comment 4 Petr Baudis 2007-09-09 16:37:38 UTC

Good point, that didn't occur to me. Still, having possibility to explicitly set this when creating the user or in user settings would be nice, I suppose if it didn't occur to me it won't occur to a lot of people (esp. since you think of this as something you should be able to change through user settings, and IIRC windows have it that way too).

Comment 5 Petr Baudis 2007-09-09 17:01:19 UTC

(Note that the gdm functionality doesn't quite work either, as described in bug 309066.)

Comment 6 Stephan Binner 2007-09-09 17:41:00 UTC

I fully agree, see my report about that against 10.2: bug 219552

Comment 7 Petr Baudis 2007-09-09 18:28:15 UTC

Thanks for the pointer, I think this is just a dupe then.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 219552 ***