Bug#773687: mate-desktop-environment: language of MATE's UI depends on default locale of system, not on user's locale

[Jakub Stepniak]

Package: mate-desktop-environment
Version: 1.8.0+7
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
1. Install Debian testing with two locales (en_US.utf8 and pl_PL.utf8 in this case).
2. Set pl_PL.utf8 as default locale for system.
3. Set en_US.utf8 as the user's locale (according to Gentoo's wiki)
4. Log in to MATE as the user, MATE's UI is Polish. I expected English UI (console tools, that are opened in mate-terminal have English UI, therefore locale is recognized.


$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

$ localectl
   System Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: pl
      X11 Layout: pl
       X11 Model: pc105

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-desktop-environment depends on:
ii  mate-desktop-environment-core  1.8.0+7

Versions of packages mate-desktop-environment recommends:
ii  atril                     1.8.1+dfsg1-3
ii  desktop-base              8.0.2
ii  engrampa                  1.8.1+dfsg1-1
ii  eom                       1.8.0+dfsg1-4+b2
ii  ffmpegthumbnailer         2.0.8-2+b4
ii  galculator                2.1.3-1
ii  mate-applets              1.8.1+dfsg1-3
pn  mate-icon-theme-faenza    <none>
ii  mate-media                1.8.0+dfsg1-3
ii  mate-notification-daemon  1.8.1-2
ii  mate-power-manager        1.8.1+dfsg1-2
ii  mate-screensaver          1.8.1-1
ii  mate-system-monitor       1.8.0+dfsg1-2
ii  mate-themes               1.9.2-1
ii  mate-utils                1.8.1+dfsg1-1
ii  pluma                     1.8.1+dfsg1-2

Versions of packages mate-desktop-environment suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mail-reader]  8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-1
ii  icedove [mail-reader]    31.3.0-1
ii  iceweasel                31.3.0esr-1
ii  mutt [mail-reader]       1.5.23-3
ii  network-manager-gnome    0.9.10.0-2

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