[systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFC]logind: set locale in user sessions

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 03.01.13 17:11, Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) wrote:

> > I am tempted to just merge the patch. The discussion on xdg-devel can
> > happen after we commited the code. In fact, moving that to PAM upstream
> > can happen at a later point too, if it is desirable...
> > 
> > Also, given that this code is a NOP if ~/.config/locale.conf doesn't
> > exist I think this is relatively straightforward to adopt...
> > 
> > Anybody else has opinions on this? Kay, Michal? Otherwise I'll just
> > merge it... Tom.  can you bring standardization of ~/.config/locale.conf
> > up on xdg-devel?
> 
> FWIW, GNOME stores this in the accounts service, outside of the user's
> configuration heirarchy entirely, for access from the display manager and
> other mechanisms.

Does gdm actually use that? Old versions used to have a language
drop-down box. But I don't think new versions still have that?

It might indeed be a good idea to be able to determine the user locale
without having to log-in/mount the home directory. Dunno. 

/me doesn't know anymore what to do...

Lennart

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