[BlueOnyx:08420] Re: GUI language

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Gerald,

> >> Since running yum update my GUI give no language selection for English
> >> all I get is
> >>
> >>    Dansk
> >>    Janpansk
> >>    Tysk

Sorry, my mistake. :o(

A fix for BlueOnyx 5106R is just hitting the mirrors now. 5107R wasn't 
affected by this.

So do the usual:

yum clean all
yum update
/etc/init.d/cced.init restart

That should sort the issue and "English" is again available in the pulldowns 
for language selection on 5106R.

With the update that broke this I tried to fix one problem (which it did on 
5107R), but on 5106R it introduced a new one:

Since a while the GUI didn't show English as default language when you looked 
at the login or logout screen. Usually the GUI determines which language the 
browser of the visitor is using and then switches the text output to the 
language of the visitor. If the visitors language is one of the four languages 
that the GUI supports. If not, it should switch to English. Which it didn't. 
It used either Danish or German instead.

So I published that recent fix, which sorted that issue. However, there is a 
small difference between 5106R and 5107R:

Historically the BlueOnyx GUI (and BlueQuartz before it) use the 'en' language 
locale files. However, in more recent Linux distributions you have to use 
'en_US' instead of 'en'.

So 5106R still uses 'en', while 5107R uses 'en_US'.  On 5107R the constructor 
that tell the GUI which language it should show as supported ignore 'en' and 
uses 'en_US' instead. However, this "ignore English, but use American English 
instead"-check was also found in the 5106R code tree, where it shouldn't be 
present. As a result no English support was left. Which is not what we really 
want. 

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber