locale in KDE

[geckolinux]

Discussed in https://github.com/orgs/SpiralLinux/discussions/132

^{Originally posted by **waternumbers** September 28, 2022} Hi Liking the KDE version of SpiralLinux but... Installing from the live media I select settings for the UK: en-gb language, keyboard layout and London time zone. On installation only the time zone is correct, keyboard and language are set to en-us. Also the en-gb language packs for firefox, hunspell and libreoffice are not installed (a wireless connection was available in the live session) Given the language support link on desktop is this a bug or expected behaviour? If it is expected behaviour it is easy to install the language packs and alter the system settings for one user - but what is the best way of altering the settings for multiple users? Thanks Paul

[deknos]

In general setting the language support to a language and the layout is.. hard? my language and timezone is german, and it was surprisingly hard. It "felt" harder than with a normal debian install to configure for the desktop and system environment all the locales and set them to german?

[geckolinux]

Hi @deknos can you confirm if you set the Calamares installer language to German? Are you also using the Plasma edition? If so, please try deleting: ~/.config/kxkbrc and ~/.config/plasma-localerc and then logout/login.

[deknos]

uh, sorry, i did not see your answer, i will do a second installation tomorrow just to be sure.

[geckolinux]

Thanks!

[deknos]

Hey, i finally came around doing an installation.

i fetched SpiralLinux_Plasma_11.220925_x86-64.iso changed to german in the live environment via set system language and started the installer. the installer saw that i wanted german and accepted that. after installation and reboot:

• most of kde is english, though the name of the standard system network connection (ethernet) is german
• firefox is english
• there's no LC_* or LANG variable.

what do i do wrong? should i not have chosen german as system language in the live environment?

[geckolinux]

@deknos Hi there, sorry for the trouble, please try this: https://github.com/orgs/SpiralLinux/discussions/132#discussioncomment-3757509 As for Firefox, please use the Language support utility to install the German language package for Firefox (and Thunderbird and LibreOffice if needed).

[deknos]

This works almost for all. LCALL is not set but quite a lot of other LC variables and LANG is set.

Now, this is just a minor issue, and i do not know if this upstream is not also a problem, but the message when KDE activates the network connection is in part STILL english. if you want to i can add a screenshot :)

[deknos]

also, the right click menu of kde is still english, even after relogin. i will try reboot

[deknos]

KDE is in parts still english. also screenshot tool and right click on the desktop are also english after reboot. but at least i can work in the shell! :D

[deknos]

also the env variable LANGUAGE is set to de:en_US and the "task-german-desktop" and "task-german-kde-desktop" tasks are not installed. perhaps this will help, but i think i have to remove all configs

[deknos]

Well, with installing locales-all, installing task-german-desktop and task-german-kde-desktop and removing all Dot-Files/Dot-Directories and Reboot, it worked, everything is german :)

[geckolinux]

Glad you figured it out, thanks for reporting what you did.

removing all Dot-Files/Dot-Directories

That's a rather extreme solution. The dot files mentioned here should be enough.

[deknos]

That's a rather extreme solution.

Yes, it is. I just wanted to make sure this works. I will now reinstall and try to get this done on the first try. if you want, i can document that here. because i think if i install the tasks, most of that is configured automatically.

[geckolinux]

Sure, please let me know. Appreciate the testing.

[geckolinux]

Please test with https://github.com/SpiralLinux/SpiralLinux-project/releases/tag/12.231001