Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 14:55 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> > The type of storage is a good question. It should ideally be
> > system-wide, not just for system apps. Isn't there already a way of
> > storing a user's language and locale?
> AFAIK no, other than tweaking .profile etc
> 
> > If not, storing the information in
> > gconf and setting the correct environment variables in g-s-d might be a
> > feasible approach.
> g-s-d is not a common parent IIRC so setting envvars in it does not
> make sense. We should either use gdm ability to setup the session
> locale - or hack gnome-session (if it does not have that functionality
> yet).
> 
In an ideal world, you should be able to change your language and not
need to restart your session, so I think it would be nice to put an
infrastructure in place (GTK signals? a D-Bus service signalling
listeners?...) for this to be possible. This might need some
coordination with other modules, so why don't we move this discussion to
d-d-l?
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>