Bug#253440: gok: Ignores the user's language preferences

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:40:17AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On mer, jun 09, 2004, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>> lionelm@harif:~$ locale
>> LANG=fr_LU@euro
>> LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
>> LC_ALL=

>> But gok still displays in French to me. It should use English.

>  If you just pass the LC_MESSAGES environment on the command line,

No, that setting is made session-wide; all my programs (even those
launched through Gnome's "application" menu) speak English to me.

>  only the gok _launcher_ will be affected

It seems not; setting LANG or LC_ALL on the command line changes its
behaviour; this suggests that gok does indeed inherit its environment
from its launcher.

> -- and it switches to english here if I use LC_MESSAGES=POSIX or
> -- LC_MESSAGES=C.

Behaviour now on my machine is that the gok's main window follows
LC_ALL / LANG, but the various pop-ups (correctly) follow LC_ALL /
LC_MESSAGES / LANG.

The main window is the one that has six buttons labelled "composer",
"window", "mouse", "activate", "GOK", "menus", "toolbar", "capture
IU". The pop-ups are those that say "GOK has enabled Sticky Keys,
which it requires", "you are using GOK in 'core pointer' mode",
"assistive technology support is not enabled".

>  Please try setting the environment before running X

It is currently set at the very beginning of /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession,
hence setting the environment for my whole X session.

> or from GDM

GDM doesn't give me any UI to set LC_MESSAGES different from LANG.

-- 
Lionel