SUMMARY Changing "Language" has no effect. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open menu entry "Settings/Configure Language" 2. Select another language than Plasma's system language 3. Restart the app, nothing changed. OBSERVED RESULT The application is language will not change. EXPECTED RESULT The application is translated to the selected language. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.14.13-208-tkg-pds (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Processor Memory: 47.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
How did you install the software (package, appimage, build from source)? It looks like you don't have the necessary translation files installed (this is reflected by the case that no menu entry is shown in the selected language).
(In reply to Thomas Baumgart from comment #1) > How did you install the software (package, appimage, build from source)? I installed it via `pacman -S kmymoney`. > It looks like you don't have the necessary translation files installed (this is > reflected by the case that no menu entry is shown in the selected language). There is a list of a lot of languages in the list (Settings/Configure Language). It is just selecting any doesn't change the UI language. Which `translation files` am I missing?
Looking at https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/kmymoney/files/ I see the kmymoney.mo files for some languages included. These files include the KMyMoney specific translations. For some strings you need the general KDE translation to be installed. Which language are you looking for?
(In reply to Thomas Baumgart from comment #3) > Looking at https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/kmymoney/files/ I > see the kmymoney.mo files for some languages included. These files include > the KMyMoney specific translations. Yes, it seems they are installed on my system. Odd that they are not used here!? e.g.: ``` ls -al /usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kmymoney/ total 572 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 25 23:19 ./ drwxr-xr-x 159 root root 4096 Aug 15 15:01 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5749 Sep 10 21:50 credits.docbook -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26046 Sep 10 21:50 details-accounts.docbook -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17323 Sep 10 21:50 details-budgets.docbook -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6023 Sep 10 21:50 details-categories.docbook -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5926 Sep 10 21:50 details-currencies.docbook -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20477 Sep 10 21:50 details-database.docbook -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9089 Sep 10 21:50 details-forecast.docbook ... ``` > For some strings you need the general > KDE translation to be installed. Which language are you looking for? DE - I installed DE lang in "Regional Settings / Language" in Plasma as alternative, too.
Created attachment 142934 [details] The selected language.
To complete the file list. This is `` on my system. ``` # ls -al /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kmymoney.mo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380226 Sep 10 21:50 /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kmymoney.mo ```
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I'm not sure if there is more information needed. Does it work on other systems?
It works fine for me under Artix Linux, a derivative of Arch Linux. I'd suggest filing a bug against the Archlinux package. What happens after you click OK on the dialog shown in the attachment of Comment #5? I get a message saying the new language will be used after restarting KMyMoney.
Can't do much without more feedback. I don't see that any Archlinux bug has been filed.
(In reply to Jack from comment #9) > What happens after you click OK on the dialog shown in the attachment of > Comment #5? I get a message saying the new language will be used after > restarting KMyMoney. Yes, I get this message, "The language for this application has been changed. The change will take effect the next time the application is started.", too. Additionally, I tried to change the default language order in Plasma settings "Regional Settings / Language / ..." but this has no effect for Plasma's desktop language, too. While I noticed some applications are now in "German" like KeePassXC - Version 2.6.6 Revision: 9c108b9, while Dolphin or most of the other applications stay English. I suspect, something with language/locale settings is interfering with Plasma's "Regional" settings or not in this case. Entering `locale` in Konsole prints: ``` $ locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL=C ``` and `~/.config/plasma-localerc` shows ``` $ cat ~/.config/plasma-localerc [Formats] LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [Translations] LANGUAGE=de:en_US ```
I'm grabbing at straws here, but what is the content of (non comments) in /etc/locale.gen? If you run the KDE systemsettings5, under Regional Settings, what is listed for Languages?
(In reply to Jack from comment #12) > I'm grabbing at straws here, but what is the content of (non comments) in > /etc/locale.gen? The content of `/etc/locale.gen` is: de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 de_DE ISO-8859-1 de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_US ISO-8859-1 > If you run the KDE systemsettings5, under Regional > Settings, what is listed for Languages? In `Regional Settings / Language` it is (in that order): 1. Deutsch (default) 2. American English
Here's an important piece of information that you mention in your comment #11: > While I noticed some applications are now in "German" like KeePassXC - Version 2.6.6 > Revision: 9c108b9, while Dolphin or most of the other applications stay English. Dolphin is a KDE application like KMyMoney. If it does not change its language to German when you switch, it seems a more general issue not related to any of the (KDE) applications. Since this is working for e.g openSUSE and other distros, I tend to see this as either a downstream (speak: repo) problem or a general local KDE issue of this user on your system. KeePassXC on the other hand maintains its own translation system that is not compatible with KDE's (see https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/develop/share/translations/keepassxc_de.ts)
Are there any other configs or libs related to KDE applications language switching? Afaik, those settings I provided should work just fine. I wonder which other external dependencies do matter to language switching code.