Re: language/locale selector [was: Re: Settings downstream would reasonably want to add]

[Martin Pitt <martin pitt ubuntu com>]

Lennart Poettering [2011-05-16 19:33 +0200]:
> Well, I think the different "smaller" system settings we want to make
> configurable, like the system locale, or the hostname or the timezone
> probably all need a tiny bit of intelligence on the server side, in
> order to ensure compat and provide change notification.

True that. In these cases it'd probably make sense to keep a local
D-BUS backend.

For languages this is particularly true. We need some place where the
detection for available and missing packages lives, or the
determination of available languages.

> I think proxy control probably belongs into NM.

Right, I think Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wants to work on this in this
cycle, he discussed that with Dan Williams.

> On Fedora we have a service which always keeps console and X11 kbd
> settings in sync. I think this is needlessly complex though, and we
> could simplify this. Just not sure how precisely.

We had that pain for many years as well. Now we reduced that to just
one config file /etc/default/keyboard which defines
XKB{MODEL,LAYOUT,VARIANTS,OPTIONS}, which is read by console-setup and
X.org. I don't know about the details either, though, but if you or
someone else is interested, I suggest talking to Colin Watson.

Thanks,

Martin

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