Bug 256078

Summary:	allow to set per-user environment variables (like LC_ALL and LANG)
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Lars Winterfeld <lars.winterfeld>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Lars Winterfeld 2010-11-04 21:19:19 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

I have a multi-user system, which is globally set to LANG=en_US.utf8 , but some users (like me) have a line like LANG=de_DE.utf8 (German) in their ~/.bashrc. (Each user may have a different setting / language.) Some programs, like Gimp, rely on those environment variables to choose the language of the user interface. If I start Gimp from the konsole, the GUI will be in German. However, if I start it from the K-Menu, it will unfourtunatly be in English. (Possibly because kdm is invoked from the system.)

Therefore, I would like be able to tell the K-Menu to somehow source the ~/.bashrc or set per-user environment variables for all started programs.

The same problem applies for the command launcher Alt + F2.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-09-29 22:22:55 UTC

Is this still a problem in recent versions of Plasma 5, like 5.19 or later?

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2020-10-14 04:33:23 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2020-10-29 04:33:41 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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