I set English as the language when installing KDE Neon. Which is fine once logged in. But during the short splash screen appearance the date is written in German. Is there any way to set the language for that? Or is this a bug?

Hi,
Can you take a look into System settings -> Regional preferences and see whether you can add more languages?
Regards,

There were no languages in the list. So I've just added English and restarted 3x, but the splash screen is still in German. After restarting, I checked, the language I added was still there. So the change stuck OK.

ianp5a wrote:There were no languages in the list. So I've just added English and restarted 3x, but the splash screen is still in German. After restarting, I checked, the language I added was still there. So the change stuck OK.

Add English +, Delete German, Set Everywhere English, Next Icon in this Set Up. Restart

alideda wrote:

ianp5a wrote:There were no languages in the list. So I've just added English and restarted 3x, but the splash screen is still in German. After restarting, I checked, the language I added was still there. So the change stuck OK.

Add English +, Delete German, Set Everywhere English, Next Icon in this Set Up. Restart

It has never had German set anywhere. Only English. Still shows German day and date in the login screen.

My /etc/default/locale file:

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LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8

Thanks mine says this even though I've never set anything like US or DE.
# File generated by update-locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"

If this file matters, I hope there is a setting to change it?

I found some new things:

In Regional Settings/Formats, there is Detailed settings. It was deactivated. I activated it and it had Germany in it. This I switched to UK and restarted. The Login screen is still in German. Also the file /etc/default/locale was not changed. Keeping its date as the OS installation date.

In Settings Time/Date Time Zone is set to Europe/Germany which is where I'm located. I'll try a "wrong" setting and see if this changes the language. EDIT: It stayed in German despite me setting time zone to Italy.

ianp5a wrote:I found some new things:

In Regional Settings/Formats, there is Detailed settings. It was deactivated. I activated it and it had Germany in it. This I switched to UK and restarted. The Login screen is still in German. Also the file /etc/default/locale was not changed. Keeping its date as the OS installation date.

Start the editor and change everything to the file all lines to "en_US.UTF-8"
Read maybe help:
https://lintut.com/how-to-set-up-system ... ntu-18-04/
Read and Arch wiki about this topic
In the long time, when plasma started the login screen, it had its own language setting.

alideda wrote:

ianp5a wrote:I found some new things:

In Regional Settings/Formats, there is Detailed settings. It was deactivated. I activated it and it had Germany in it. This I switched to UK and restarted. The Login screen is still in German. Also the file /etc/default/locale was not changed. Keeping its date as the OS installation date.

Start the editor and change everything to the file all lines to "en_US.UTF-8"
Read maybe help:
https://lintut.com/how-to-set-up-system ... ntu-18-04/
Read and Arch wiki about this topic
In the long time, when plasma started the login screen, it had its own language setting.

Thanks. I'm looking for the intended GUI way to change this. I'm not going to risk messing something up editing text. If it can't be done in the GUI then I can report it.

Ok, search for the GUI toolkit, you've already tried the GUI toolkit setup system and you did not succeed. Good luck.
If you do not want to work with the editor or command, I do not know what you are doing in linux world.
Here's a link to find out, all this can be done through GUI, Dolphin file manager, kate or kwrite GUI editor
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1040844 ... untu-18-04
Good luck in linux world!

alideda wrote:Ok, search for the GUI toolkit, you've already tried the GUI toolkit setup system and you did not succeed. Good luck.
If you do not want to work with the editor or command, I do not know what you are doing in linux world.
Here's a link to find out, all this can be done through GUI, Dolphin file manager, kate or kwrite GUI editor
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1040844 ... untu-18-04
Good luck in linux world!

To answer your question, I'm here to find and report any problems that keep non IT users off of Linux.
One such problem is where appropriate interface options are not available. For non IT people, the command line and all the extra learning it needs should be avoided. Especially where other OSs don't need you to learn and memorise lots of commands to change a simple setting.
The second problem, is where non IT users are given bad advice by people who are not interested in usability. Usability outsiders often think Linux is just for IT specialists. And that it's OK to tell non IT people to use inappropriate user interfaces. Which scares them away from Linux. Even though there may be an easy way.
So I'm trying to help them understand the problem they are causing and help guide them away from giving poor and frankly outrageous advice like "I don't know what you are doing in the Linux world". Do you think Linux is just for IT experienced people?

A lot of people have put a lot of work in to making KDE easy to use. The usability insiders won't be happy to hear what usability outsiders are saying to scare people away from their excellent work. And whilst we appreciate people trying to be helpful, if they don't know about usability it's best to admit it, rather than cause damage.

Linux is not windows, linux assumes that commands are used. I do not know why so much fear to change something in a text file.
If you have a grub with recovery mode, MC has a similar program like win, you can always fix this file with that program, you can make a copy to give the old extension and just obrises from MC (which I always install as soon as I install a linux file) If there is no copy result, the array continues the old one and you restart. I do not even know why I'm trying to explain to you anymore, and I love GUI but when I need to use commands. You are looking for help on the linux forum and you absolutely refuse whatever you are proposing to do, I do not understand. Do you have such important information that the reinstallation would be fatal, I always make a system partition and a user partition. When I reinstall the linux user partition, I do not make it from scratch, I keep important directories.
You can install teamviewer is free for ordinary people, find someone you trust and let them fix this little thing

alideda wrote:Linux is not windows, linux assumes that commands are used. I do not know why so much fear to change something in a text file.
If you have a grub with recovery mode, MC has a similar program like win, you can always fix this file with that program, you can make a copy to give the old extension and just obrises from MC (which I always install as soon as I install a linux file) If there is no copy result, the array continues the old one and you restart. I do not even know why I'm trying to explain to you anymore, and I love GUI but when I need to use commands. You are looking for help on the linux forum and you absolutely refuse whatever you are proposing to do, I do not understand. Do you have such important information that the reinstallation would be fatal, I always make a system partition and a user partition. When I reinstall the linux user partition, I do not make it from scratch, I keep important directories.
You can install teamviewer is free for ordinary people, find someone you trust and let them fix this little thing

It's a wrong assumption to think I fear changing the text file. Changing the text file is not going help if I'm trying to find the GUI solution. If there is none, then a fix is required.
I too have a separate partition making reinstalling simpler. But I will now reinstall in a VM to see if the problem occurs again and log each step for a bug report. Changing text files would make debugging it trickier. It's a small problem. But I'm sure they'd like to get it fixed.

You chose the wrong place, the forum serves to help users and not to report bugs. Your problem is not a bug because there are more solutions and I've tried to help you by giving you links and suggestions on how to solve this trivial problem. I had a problem that Neon was in Korean translation. If you think your mission is to point to a bug report, you have https://bugs.kde.org/. By the way, if you're wondering why I'm giving links to the Ubuntu, look at the Neon distribution base and see that KDE was once part of the Ubuntu project.
This is the problem for which you are given the solution, do you really think that the developers have much time to do the GUI procedure for something that already exists a solution, and the problem rarely appears that it is almost impossible to reproduce. By the way, you wrote that you can destroy the sžstem by changing the file and now denies it.

And whilst we appreciate people trying to be helpful, if they don't know about usability it's best to admit it, rather than cause damage.