Re: [Fwd: GDM Login - Cinnabar Linux]

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Honza:

> maybe I was not clear in my previous question.
> All locales what are in gdmlanguages.c file appear in GDM login (i.e.
> including French) on Cinnabar Linux build 32.

Great.  I thought you included French in the list of missing languages
in your previous email.  I must have misread.

> But my question is, who decides what additional territories appear for
> each of available locale.
> E.g. for Spanish, there is Spanish and Spanish (Mexico) available in
> GDM login.
> I checked all available locales (/usr/lib/locale) and there are many
> territories variants - e.g.
>    for Spanish:
>         es_AR.utf8
>         es_BO.utf8
>         es_CL.utf8
>         es_CO.utf8
>         es_CR.utf8
>         es_DO.utf8
>         es_EC.utf8
>         es_ES.utf8
>         es_ES euro 
>
>    for French:
>         fr_BE.utf8
>         fr_BE euro
>         fr_CA.utf8
>         fr_CH.utf8
>         fr_FR.utf8
>         fr_FR euro
>         fr_LU.utf8
>         fr_LU euro
>         
> But only few of them appear in the GDM login.
> Could you please let me know who is responsible for selecting list of
> locales and its territories which appear in GDM login?

I am the gdm maintainer, so I am probably the right person to work with.
However, I'm not really clear how the locales in /usr/lib/locale relate
to the gui/gdmlanguages.c file.  Most of the work in these files have been
done by people in the gnome-i18n gnome org mail alias.  So I've cc:ed them
for comment.

I'm not sure if these languages are supported in general by the different
flavors of Linux/UNIX.  If they are, then we should probably add the missing
languages to gdmlanguages.c and locale.alias so that they are supported.
If these languages are supported just on Solaris, we might want to simply
patch our distribution code to support the languages for our distribution.

Comments?

Brian