Bugzilla Bug 182175

Please base the default language for mozilla products on the user's selected
locale, not on $LINGUAS, to match the behaviour of mostly every other program
that supports translations, and to not make a semi-random supported language
the default when using LINGUAS="*" (a new feature of portage). This behaviour
is available in mozilla products already, it just needs to be enabled by
setting the intl.locale.matchOS property to true. I'll attach a diff for a
modified firefox ebuild I'm using without problems.

Created an attachment (id=122194) [edit]
mozilla-firefox-linguas.patch

As an added bonus, the whole linguas function can be dropped.

(And a side note, the changed LANGS line is because the fy-NL and pt-PT
translations contain malformed install.rdf files. This means they don't work
and even break other translations.)

Shrug, i've added that to all the ebuilds, and if the user disables that
variable, the product will use the locale instead of the selected locale
through the config.

Let me explain, if the user has set this in his profile:

user_pref("general.useragent.locale", "cs-CZ");
user_pref("intl.locale.matchOS", false);

But in the default prefs it's set:
pref("intl.locale.matchOS",                 true);

It will ignore the user pref, so i guess it's not funny to have the user forced
to change the locale for the app...would be more easy if you could change the
language from inside the app(which you already can do, modifiying the config)

Plus: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331779

So yeah, i guess i'll revert it...

(In reply to comment #2)
> It will ignore the user pref, so i guess it's not funny to have the user forced
> to change the locale for the app...would be more easy if you could change the
> language from inside the app(which you already can do, modifiying the config)

As a workaround (firefox takes a long time to re-emerge), it is possible to
start firefox with the -UILocale option to bypass the config.

I agree the problem you found is a serious one, and that this is better
disabled again at least until user prefs are respected. Still, could you do
something to make LINGUAS="*" behave more sanely? Perhaps not changing the
default language at all would be an idea?

It looks as though the locale has to be specified at build time to get
everything correct. I posted a patch in bug #189647. I'm not sure if it's even
possible to build for more than one locale (there are no multi-locale binary
versions of firefox for download), so I agree it might be best to just get rid
of $LINGUAS and that whole linguas function and just use the locale.

*** Bug 198085 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 212780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reopening. This is not an upstream bug. The bug is in the ebuild. "Give me all
languages" does not mean "change the default language to Afrikaans" (actually,
it's now Belarusian here), and it's not upstream that's doing that, it's you.
The only upstream bug is that one possible fix doesn't actually work. That
shouldn't prevent other fixes.

> Still, could you do
> something to make LINGUAS="*" behave more sanely? Perhaps not changing the
> default language at all would be an idea?

Although I still believe this is a valid bug, I no longer care about this, as I
will no longer be using firefox (or any other mozilla products) now that it
requires acceptance of an EULA. If you want to close this, feel free. If you
want to keep it open, that's fine too.