Bug 411305

Summary:	Languages selected in systemsettings should update accountsservice's org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.Language
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Dennis Schridde <heri+kde>
Component:	kcm_regionandlang	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	dennis.schridde, hanyoung, katyaberezyaka, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.15.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192019
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/b69cbfce91b1528e72cb52d34c776b543889c3e1	Version Fixed In:	5.26
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Dennis Schridde 2019-08-26 06:15:24 UTC

SUMMARY

In System Settings / Regional Settings / Language I selected British English and German / Deutsch for my user.  When I query the accountsservice for the user's languages, however, the list is empty:

```
qdbus --system org.freedesktop.Accounts /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000 org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.Language

```

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: N/A
macOS: N/A
Linux/KDE Plasma: Linux / Fedora 30,
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.59.0
Qt Version: 5.12.4

Comment 1 Dennis Schridde 2019-08-26 16:22:15 UTC

Please note that contrary to bug #327757, this issue here is not about unexpected translations showing up in programs, but the system DBus service at org.freedesktop.Accounts (accountsservice) not knowing what language this user prefers.

This then breaks programs like flatpak and it's locale auto-detection: It falls back to `en` for all users.   (I found out about this via https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1504)

Ref: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/blob/1.4.2/common/flatpak-dir.c#L13985

Comment 2 guimarcalsilva 2022-02-17 18:06:16 UTC

I can confirm running the command in the original post shows the languages don't get updated, but Flatpaks do get translated in my case. I don't know to what extent this could be a problem.

Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2022-07-23 12:54:23 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1950

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2022-08-01 16:27:14 UTC

Git commit b69cbfce91b1528e72cb52d34c776b543889c3e1 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Han Young.
Committed on 01/08/2022 at 16:08.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

set AccountService language

M  +9    -0    kcms/region_language/kcmregionandlang.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/b69cbfce91b1528e72cb52d34c776b543889c3e1