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

[Tom Gundersen]

Hi Bastien,

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 11:23 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) said:
>> > Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said:
>> > > 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's necessary to have that outside the user's config option to allow
> gdm to read it to set the upcoming session's locale, allow other users
> to see the languages used by others (used in the Region & Language
> panel, where the other users' languages are prominent choices), and
> allow changing the user's language by the system administration tools
> (used in the User Accounts panel).

I have played around a bit with AccountsService (not being a GNOME
user I had not
tried it before), and have a couple of questions:

1) Is the storage format documented anywhere? Is it meant only to be internal to
AccountsService, or could other services in principle use the config
files directly?

3) How do you deal with user accounts being accessed from different
machines? Assuming
/home is shared and /var is not, I'm struggling to see how storing
user-config in /var can work
(though I could not find any documentation, so it is entirely possible
I'm missing something
obvious).

Cheers,

Tom