Re: Problem with gtk+-1 Applications in gnome 2-6

[Danilo Segan <danilo gnome org>]

Hi Ingo,

On Saturday at 20:18, Ingo Krabbe wrote:

> I know that such a problem isn't your primary issue of development,
> though it is a quality issue concerning I18N development, when a new
> installation/distribution can overwrite a I18N setting without a
> reflection in the session setup and desktop configuration. 

Gnome doesn't provide installable packages.  Complain with Gentoo or
whoever packaged your Gnome installation for you.  Whatever's broken,
is their or your fault (apart from xmodmap not working, which Gnome
will explicitely ignore, and report it as such in common cases).

> I demand a setup of a standard character option settable at login or
> session level or in the gdm or desktop configuration.  This option
> could easily affect the LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_ALL or similar variables
> at shell level, otherwise set by the .xsession configuration,
> heavily affected by distributions. 

This is already possible, it's just not configured appropriately in
your setup.  This is not a Gnome issue, but a distributor issue.

> What I finally did, and what solved my problems is to choose custom
> .xsession setup.  I just didn't realized that gdm meant
> $HOME/.xsession with "Custom Session", when selecting the Session at
> login level. 
>
> Choosing "Gnome" resulted in the broken setting.
>
> Luckily "Gentoo" is  a distribution that keeps hands of such
> configurations !

All of this means that it's Gentoo that's not providing you with what
you're asking for (actually, it is providing you with what you're
asking for, you just don't like the way it's doing it).

It's not up to Gnome (yet ;) to manage system/user wide settings,
though it does do it to some extent (gdm sets the locale if needed,
g-c-c sets the keyboard layout etc.).  Gnome builds on top of either
GNU or other "Unixey" operating systems, and relies on them providing
the basic infrastructure.

Cheers,
Danilo