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Hi all:
On Xubuntu 16.04 LTS, in the menu settings, there is an entry called Language Support which corresponds to /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector.
I cannot see any such language selector in Gnome/Xfce4 with archlinux.
Nothing I could find to add from Packages or AUR...
Any idea why this important thing is missing and how to bring it up?
Thank you.
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I don't think that's part of Gnome. Ubuntu/Canonical custom thing?
Feel free to create a PKGBUILD for it and add it to the AUR if you think other people may find this useful.
In the meantime I'll drop this here; https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale
Last edited by Omar007 (2016-10-29 23:31:55)
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For Gnome, there is "Region & Language" in Gnome control center. No idea on what Xfce does, though.
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Thank you for your replies. There should be a reason for the lack of Language Support setting in Xfce in archlinux.
In KDE/Kubuntu General System Settings there is also a integrated Regional & Language entry with three items. First of them is Country/Region & language.
@phw, do you mean GNOME in archlinux? Unity too?
Last edited by Djee (2016-11-01 10:52:58)
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I would be OK to add this application as an AUR package.
However, my question was initially why it is not included in Xfce because I found it in most Debian/APT based packages.
Before adding it if needed, it seems difficult to delineate what it is, what it does, and how it is related to GNOME.
On Xubuntu, I noticed it changes, LANG, LC_*, LANGUAGE user (or system) environment variables.
However, it also downloads and updates language packs and GNOME language packs from APT.
Moreover, it loads language packs from installed application language packs: e.g. Libre Office, Firefox...
So this Language utility seems pretty important.
Many hooks and aspects which make me think it is very intricate and thus far from obvious for whom is not very aware of this.
I would not be surprised it is already included in GNOME or in some architecture promoted by freedesktop.org.
Any suggestion or piece of advice welcome!
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