[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#679386: Bug#679386: Dirty Workaround

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hey Vladimir,

> When accountsservice is installed, both versions work well with
> workaround.

Well, yes, except I cannot rely on AccountsService as it stores its
information *locally* which is completely useless if users login over
the network.

I have no idea what went into the minds of GNOME developers when they
came up with AccountsService but they never tested it in a corporate
environment, obviously. Storing the information about the default
session and language locally means that it gets lost once a user
switches their login machine (which happens on a daily basis in a
university network with hundreds of students without their own desktop
machines).

Thus, I had to extend your workaround to reliably retrieve the
information about the default language from ${HOME}/.dmrc.

> In my case, when $LANG is "ru_RU.UTF-8 at ISO", your $LANGUAGE
> generator line produces "ru_RU at ISO:ru at ISO". Is that correct, or it
> should be only "ru_RU:ru"?

I checked my /etc/default/locale and it used the following format:

> #  File generated by update-locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE="en_US:en"


Hence I assumed the format "lang_COUNTRY:lang" to be correct for
LANGUAGE. If your code snippet makes it even more flexible, I will
shamelessly copy it :).

PS: Please keep me in the CC, I'm not subscribed to this bug report.

Cheers,

Adrian