Language issues

[Miepee]

There are currently two potentially related language issues, so I have grouped them together here:

• The system language is detected as English. This does not happen with other flatpak applications or vanilla dolphin
• Changing the language to non-english and rebooting, causes dolphin to error out that it cannot find the language, and default back to English

[cpba]

It seems to work for some languages but not others.

Testing on my system:

• Catalan is autodetected and works fine.
• English works when switched to.
• Catalan works again when forced.
• German fails and falls back to catalan.

Is this different from what you're getting? Might it have to do with installed locales?

[Miepee]

Might it have to do with installed locales?

Application installed or system installed? Because the locale on the system is there as other flatpak applications default to it.

Is this different from what you're getting?

Yes. I just tried to switch to every language from the top up until Italian. All of them (except english) failed and reverted back to English.

[cpba]

Application installed or system installed? Because the locale on the system is there as other flatpak applications default to it.

I mean the flatpak ones, for instance, if you run:

flatpak info runtime/org.kde.Platform.Locale/x86_64/5.15-22.08 flatpak info runtime/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin_emu.Locale/

Does the de subdirectory show up in both?

[Miepee]

Nope, both only show en.

[cpba]

That's very strange, the german locale should be automatically installed.

What does flatpak config output?

[Miepee]

languages:  *unset* (default: en)
extra-languages: *unset*

This seems like a steam deck specific thing. Installing dolphin flatpak on my desktop and executing the info commands from above does show me the "de" subdirectories.

[cpba]

So they hardcoded the locale to english?

Do they still allow you to change it with flatpak config --set languages ?

[Miepee]

So they hardcoded the locale to english?

Potentially for flatpaks, i checked LANG and that is set to de_de-utf8 or something.

Do they still allow you to change it with flatpak config --set languages

Kinda. If I set the language to german, then system language will default to german, and everything non-german will now error.

[cpba]

If I set the language to german, then system language will default to german, and everything non-german will now error.

Are you talking about dolphin-emu specifically or other flatpaks in general?

If you mean dolphin, that's an expected error, you can't switch to a language without its locally being installed.

[Miepee]

Sorry misphrased myself a little. What I meant is that apparently only one locale can be installed at one time there. So if I switch the flatpak language to german, english locale will stop ceasing for all flatpak applications. This is contrary to my desktop setup, where I german and english locale works.

[cpba]

What happens if you try to set both locales, as in doing 'en;de', does it error out?

[Miepee]

Then it works for english and german, but not for other langauges. I assume this is more a SteamOS bug then, than an issue with this flatpak?

[cpba]

I assume this is more a SteamOS bug then, than an issue with this flatpak?

Yeah, I would report it to valve and see what they say. Sometimes it takes a while but they do fix stuff.

[Miepee]

Closing as the specified behaviour is a SteamOS issue. The Deck devs/maintainers are aware of it, and a fix will land at some point.