Re: i18n problem in GDM

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

mån 2004-03-08 klockan 17.10 skrev Kjartan Maraas:
> I've noticed a problem wrt i18n in GDM lately. The function
> gdm_get_last_info() uses last(1) to get the date and time of the last
> login for the user and just strips off some stuff and presents the date
> and time in raw format when entering the username. This makes it
> impossible to do any kind of sane localisation of this string. Did this
> feature get added recently? I think we should default this setting to
> off until we can get it localized properly at the very least. Maybe it's
> possible to set it based on locale? If running in C or en_* use it, if
> not hide it?

If it cannot be properly localized in code right now (which I doubt,
we're after all in deep code freeze now), I'd vote for disabling this
feature altogether for 2.6.

Is this reported in Bugzilla somewhere?


Christian