Re: Bug in i18n of GConf?

[Peter Wainwright <prw ceiriog1 demon co uk>]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:15, Fernando Herrera wrote:
> 
> 	Yes, this is a known bug:
> 
> 	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152175
> 
> 	It happens only in some situations when intltool-merge modifies the
> order of locales in the final .schema file IIRC. Tha attached patch in that
> bug should fix it.
> 
> Salu2

Thanks very much! That fixed it, indeed.

Peter Wainwright

> 
> 
> Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:23:09AM +0100, prw ceiriog1 demon co uk escribió:
> 
> >
> >Hi, 
> >
> >I just compiled Gnome 2.8 from source on my Fedora Core 2 box.
> >On the first run I had several problems:
> >
> >* No icons on menu items
> >* gnome-theme-manager failed to start with message
> >"The default theme schemas could not be found on your system.  This means that you probably don't have metacity installed, or that your gconf is configured incorrectly."
> >
> >On further investigation I discovered that gconftool-2 now applies default
> >values only for the "C" locale, as shown in this ChangeLog entry:
> >
> >2004-08-30  Mark McLoughlin  <mark skynet ie>
> >                                                                                
> >        Fix problem with schemas install. Bug #151334.
> >                                                                                
> >        * gconf/gconftool.c: (process_locale_info): install the
> >        global default in the C locale only.
> >
> >Unfortunately this fix causes the problems I described above. I.e. I
> >have no default gtk_theme, and cannot set one because gnome-theme-manager
> >will not start without one. This only occurs if LANG is a recognized locale
> >in
> >
> >/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/desktop/gnome/interface/%gconf.xml
> >
> >If it is not (e.g. "en_GB.UTF-8") then GConf seemingly falls back on the
> >"C" locale. Eventually I ran system-config-language, which on FC2 sets
> >LANG to that value, and so I was able to work around the problem.
> >But this can't be the right solution, since it defeats the GConf
> >localization.
> >
> >Is there something I'm missing, or should this go in bugzilla?
> >
> >
> >Peter Wainwright
> >
> >
> >
> >
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