Bug#392854: gnome: all KDE apps are not localised correctly when started from within Gnome

[Michael Schmitt]

Package: gnome
Version: 1:2.14.3.2
Severity: important

Hi folks!

My system is german but somehow KDE shows Gnome apps in english and Gnome shows
KDE apps in english. I switch between KDE and Gnome regularly and use apps from
both worlds in both desktop environments so this is somehow very annoying. For
convinience reasons, I use gdm and its features to start KDE and Gnome session
from withing it in a flexible way so I assume trying to fix this on my own with
an adequate ~/.Xsession does not work very well.
I would expect a user sets his prefered language _once_ (via $LANG for
example) and that should reflect on both worlds without a hassle. Overriding
those global settings with environment-specific settings could be optional.

your thoughts?

greets
Michael

P.S.: I've sent the same report to KDE, because I did not know who's to blame,
so I think blaming both is rather fair :)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gnome depends on:
ii  gdm-themes                    0.5        Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  gnome-cups-manager            0.31-3     CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME
ii  gnome-desktop-environment     1:2.14.3.2 The GNOME Desktop Environment
ii  gnome-games-extra-data        2.14.0-1   games for the GNOME desktop (extra
ii  gnome-office                  1:2.14.3.2 The GNOME Office suite
ii  gnome-screensaver             2.14.3-2   GNOME screen saver and locker
ii  gnome-themes-extras           0.9.0-5    various themes for the GNOME 2 des
ii  rhythmbox                     0.9.6-1    music player and organizer for GNO
ii  synaptic                      0.57.11    Graphical package manager
ii  xscreensaver                  4.24-5     Automatic screensaver for X

gnome recommends no packages.

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