[Bug 1153331] Re: too many languages installed by default ?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Thibault, and thanks for your help to make Ubuntu better by reporting
this issue!

It's my understanding that the languages you mention (English, German,
Spanish, Portuguese and simplified Chinese) are preinstalled in the
desktop image. If you select one of those languages and click "Try
Ubuntu", you get a decent preview experience in the selected language.

However, if you e.g. select French, it just generates a French locale,
sets $LANG to fr_FR.UTF-8 and sets a French keyboard layout. It does not
install the French language packs, even if you are connected to
Internet, so - as you already know - you don't get the expected preview
experience in French.

This is an issue with the Ubuntu installer, so I change the affected
package accordingly.

** Package changed: language-selector (Ubuntu) => ubiquity (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Summary changed:

- too many languages installed by default ?
+ "Try Ubuntu" only possible in a few languages

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Title:
  "Try Ubuntu" only possible in a few languages

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hi,

  I'm testing a French daily build of Ubuntu 13.04.

  Just after hitting "Test Ubuntu", I opened gnome-language-selector.
  It told me that the languages were not completely installed and I answered to remind it me later.

  Strangely, in the list of the "Language of the windows and menus", French does not appear at all, but instead I get a bunch of languages (excepted English) that I'm not using :
  - English,
  - Deutsch (Deutschalnd)
  - English (Australia)
  - English (Canada)
  - English (United Kingdom)
  - English (New Zealand)
  - English (United States)
  - Espanol
  - Portugûes (Brasil)
  - Portugûes (Portugal)
  and probably Chinese (I cannot reproduce the signs bu you can check the screenshot)

  This might be considered as "normal" as the languages are not
  completely installed (as the message said), but still remains very
  strange for a basic end user testing Ubuntu...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: language-selector-common 0.106
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-11.20-generic 3.8.2
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-11-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.9.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.330
  Date: Sun Mar 10 18:07:41 2013
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20130310)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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