Bug#1119310: gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu: The extension and the settings menu are always displayed in English

[Christian B.]

Package: gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu
Version: 67.2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: chr.braun at gmx.ch

Dear Maintainer,

I have noticed that the configured language is not displayed in the Gnome
extension gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu. The language for the user is set to
German. Other gnome extensions are also displayed in German.

echo $LANG
de_DE.UTF-8

After some troubleshooting, I found that the mo files are present but are
located in the wrong folder (/usr/share/gnome-
shell/extensions/arcmenu at arcmenu.com/po/).
According to https://gjs.guide/extensions/overview/anatomy.html#extension-zip,
however, the files should be located under “/usr/share/gnome-
shell/extensions/arcmenu at arcmenu.com/locale/<language-code>/LC_MESSAGES/”.

When I apply this workaround, ArcMenu is displayed correctly in German.

mkdir -p /usr/share/gnome-
shell/extensions/arcmenu at arcmenu.com/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/
cd /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/arcmenu at arcmenu.com/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/
ln -s ../../../po/de.mo arcmenu.mo

The error occurs under gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu stable (65-2) and under
testing (67.2-1).

Best regards, Christian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (400, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu depends on:
ii  gir1.2-gmenu-3.0  3.36.0-3
ii  gnome-shell       48.4-1~deb13u1

gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu recommends no packages.

gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu suggests no packages.

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