I have installed mail-client/thunderbird-bin-60.3.3 with "ru" locale but its interface is in English for me. Also "languages" category in add-on manager is missing. All other applications in my system including firefox-bin are translated correctly. Reproducible: Always Output of "equery u thunderbird-bin": [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for mail-client/thunderbird-bin-60.3.3: U I + + crashreporter : Enable crash reporter for bugs + + ffmpeg : Enable ffmpeg/libav-based audio/video codec support - - l10n_ar : Arabic - - l10n_ast : Asturian - - l10n_be : Belarusian - - l10n_bg : Bulgarian - - l10n_br : Breton - - l10n_ca : Catalan - - l10n_cs : Czech - - l10n_cy : Welsh - - l10n_da : Danish - - l10n_de : German - - l10n_el : Modern Greek - - l10n_en-GB : English (United Kingdom) - - l10n_es-AR : Spanish (Argentina) - - l10n_es-ES : Spanish (Spain) - - l10n_et : Estonian - - l10n_eu : Basque - - l10n_fi : Finnish - - l10n_fr : French - - l10n_fy : Western Frisian - - l10n_ga : Irish - - l10n_gd : Scottish Gaelic - - l10n_gl : Galician - - l10n_he : Hebrew - - l10n_hr : Croatian - - l10n_hsb : Upper Sorbian - - l10n_hu : Hungarian - - l10n_hy : Armenian - - l10n_id : Indonesian - - l10n_is : Icelandic - - l10n_it : Italian - - l10n_ja : Japanese - - l10n_ko : Korean - - l10n_lt : Lithuanian - - l10n_nb : Norwegian Bokmål - - l10n_nl : Dutch - - l10n_nn : Norwegian Nynorsk - - l10n_pl : Polish - - l10n_pt-BR : Portuguese (Brazil) - - l10n_pt-PT : Portuguese (Portugal) - - l10n_rm : Romansh - - l10n_ro : Romanian + + l10n_ru : Russian - - l10n_si : Sinhala - - l10n_sk : Slovak - - l10n_sl : Slovenian - - l10n_sq : Albanian - - l10n_sr : Serbian - - l10n_sv : Swedish - - l10n_tr : Turkish - - l10n_uk : Ukrainian - - l10n_vi : Vietnamese - - l10n_zh-CN : Chinese (China) - - l10n_zh-TW : Chinese (Taiwan) + + pulseaudio : Add support for PulseAudio sound server Output of "locale": LANG=ru_RU.utf8 LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.utf8" LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME="ru_RU.utf8" LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.utf8" LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.utf8" LC_PAPER="ru_RU.utf8" LC_NAME="ru_RU.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.utf8" LC_ALL=
Is this a fresh installation or did you upgrade (in this case please tell use your previous version)?
I used mail-client/thunderbird-52.9.1 before (not *-bin package).
So your problem is that your profile configuration is out of date, it is still using the old way which is no longer working for localization. Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1445897 should give you a hint what you need to change. Of course, creating a new profile will also fix the problem for you. I am not aware about a "refresh" feature in Thunderbird like Firefox provides. So don't forget to backup your profile because you will have to manually move your mails to the new profile.
I just tried to start Thunderbird with newly created profile, but nothing changed. The interface is still in English. Also setting the following properties: intl.locale.MatchOs = false intl.locale.requested = ru does not help. The language pack is not available in add-on manager.
Localization info from troubleshooting Thunderbird page: Internationalization & Localization Application Settings Requested Locales ["en-US"] Available Locales ["en-US"] App Locales ["en-US"] Regional Preferences ["ru-RU"] Default Locale "en-US" Operating System System Locales ["ru-RU"] Regional Preferences ["ru-RU"]
Same problem here with thunderbird-bin-60.4.0 and the "fr" locale with a fresh profile. My workaround is to manually install the language pack using the xpi file retrieved by portage and set these options in my profile: intl.locale.MatchOs = false intl.locale.requested = fr (even if my account uses LANG=fr_FR.utf8, these options are mandatory to have a translated GUI) I don't know if the comparison is relevant, but for my firefox-bin-64.0.2, the langpack is stored in /opt/firefox/browser/extensions/langpack-fr@firefox.mozilla.org.xpi while it's decompressed for Thunderbird in /opt/thunderbird/distribution/bundles/langpack-fr@thunderbird.mozilla.org/ (and I didn't have to do anything in firefox to get the translations).
OK, I can confirm that installing thunderbird-bin with L10N=ru for example won't give you a Russian UI on first start using a fresh profile.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f590e4543709513429cab89952a8166b4ee8ef6f commit f590e4543709513429cab89952a8166b4ee8ef6f Author: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-01-12 22:03:42 +0000 Commit: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-01-12 22:05:42 +0000 mail-client/thunderbird-bin: fix localization Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/673442 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.55, Repoman-2.3.12 Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> .../files/thunderbird-gentoo-default-prefs-r1.js | 12 ++ .../thunderbird-bin-60.4.0-r1.ebuild | 187 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 199 insertions(+)
This should be working now, including localized Lightning (when available). If you don't get a localized Lightning, you maybe need to force an update for the Lightning extension, i.e. delete "{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}.xpi" in your Thunderbird profile and reset "extensions.installedDistroAddon.{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}" in about:config to force an update when on next Thunderbird restart.
I confirm my locals returned after the package update and the extensions.installedDistroAddon option reset.
Thunderbird is localized correctly now, thanks. But Lightning is still not localized, even after following the steps you described. There are some warnings on install: >>> Messages generated by process 4844 on 2019-01-14 19:28:20 MSK for package mail-client/thunderbird-bin-60.4.0-r1: WARN: prepare Locale ru was not found for lightning, skipping. Locale ru was not found for calendar, skipping.
Yeah, that's what I tried to say with > including localized Lightning (when available) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ;-) Well, we have to update and re-generate our lightning package to include ru locales but at the moment I don't know how to do that.
OK, got it now. ;)
