Version: 3.5.9 (using KDE 3.5.9) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux Switching Kcontrol Application Language changes only the language of the File, View, Settings, and Help menus. The actual application options remain in the language set as the KDE default.
Created attachment 24585 [details] Screenshot of Kcontrol showing wrong language Here is a screenshot of Kcontrol showing wrong language. Also in the screenshot can be seen the current language settings in from the Change Application Language dialog.
- Is this still happening on KDE4 ? Thanks
Yes, I can confirm the issue in KDE 4.3.
This is because the texts on the left come from KService objects in ksycoca. That's a KDE-global thing, and it can hold only one language, for space reasons. So if that was switched to English, you would get English everywhere else where services/apps are shown: K menu, open-with dialog, open-with submenus, etc. I can see how this is a technical detail surfacing up, but the whole idea of switching one app's language independently from the rest of KDE is limited by design (e.g. it breaks with kioslaves too). I can't think of a solution for this, sorry.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 259129 ***