Cannot Change Language setings for KDE Apps
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Hi,
so far I did not find a solution to a problem which I experience with a KDE install on one of my machines. Problem is that I try to set all localization to German but basically all applications in KDE keep (stubbornly) insisting on using English. I changes system wide locale to de_DE and told KDE that German is my preferred language but still menus in applications stay in English. My assumption is that the user account was created when system wide language preference was set to en_US (because the person doing the original install (if I remember correctly it was kubunt 13.04) was not a German native speaker) and from that the original set-up of the user inherited English as the preferred language. I updated now system twice but seem to inherit the preference from the original set-up. My current setup is 64 bit kubuntu 15.04 running standard pc ... How can I consistently change my kde preferences without the need to restore my complete account? Just delete .kde and let it be re-created? However, what is the rational behind not changing the language preferences consistently to the language which is selected in the language preference of the KDE control??? Any help or comments on this would be very much appreciated. Best, Klaus PS: Answers can be given of course also in German or as a last resort in French. I only write in English with the hope for a broader audience ... |
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do you have the german i18n packages installed?
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I have the same problem with the Italian language in Kubuntu 15.04 64bit. The packages kde-l10n-it is installed. Thanks |
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Installing a package kde-l10n-[langcode] is not sufficient.
Any hit running "dpkg -L systemsettings.mo" in Konsole? |
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the response to the command is:
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Sorry a typo in the given command. Please run "dpkg -S systemsettings.mo" in konsole |
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dpkg -S systemsettings.mo
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Output of the command looks ok, you should have all these languages available for selection in Sytemsettings. Do you have the package "qttranslations5-l10n" installed? |
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Yes, the package "qttranslations5-l10n" is installed.
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Sorry I am slowly running out of ideas and do not have the problem with a fresh kf5 installation and an update from 14.10. Do you have a translated GUI running e.g. "LANGUAGE=it kate" in Konsole? |
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shouldn't that be "LANG=it"?
Anyway, please inspect (and/or post) the ouput of "locale" (command to enter into konsole) |
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If I run "LANGUAGE=it kate" in Konsole or "LANG=it kate" nothing change: the application is still in English.
Here the output of locale
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No with "LANG=it" the Kate -GUI is completely in en_US, but with "LANGUAGE=it kate" I have a nearly fully translated GUI via frameworks/ktexteditor catalogs even without an installed package kde-l10n-it |
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> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory > LC_CTYPE="it_IT.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="it_IT.UTF-8" smells like corrupted locales. try "sudo locale-gen"
Ok, that's interesting/confusing LANG=<anything not a valid/generated LC catalog> I get english LANGUAGE=it indeed provides me mostly italian, but eg. LANGUAGE=dk does not get me danish, nor does cz czech. pl and sv work though - and i've no laguage packages installed =) |
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Hi
now it works correctly! thanks a lot 
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