Enabling support a language seems wrong

[Emmanuel Rodriguez <emmanuel rodriguez gmail com>]

Hi,

I was trying have GNOME use a different language than English using the 
method described in the page http://www.gnome.org/i18n/ under the 
section "To enable support for your language, you need to add this to 
/~/.profile/:" and it didn't work.

It seems that when the GNOME session is started that the file ~/.profile 
is not read. I am currently using GNOME 2.12.0, my shell is tcsh and my 
linux distribution is Ubuntu Breezy.

GNOME doesn't seem to start a login before starting the session, so the 
modifications to the file ~/.profile seem useless. Specially under tcsh 
since the shell doesn't even load the ~/.profile. I took a look at the 
xsession start up scripts found under /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ and all the 
startup scripts are written in sh and I noticed that the startup scripts 
load the file ~/.gnomerc if it exists. If the environment variables that 
control the locale are inserted in that file the GNOME session will 
respect the locale change. Because the file ~/.gnomerc is sourced by the 
xsession startup scripts, which are written in sh, the format of this 
file must also be in sh no matter the shell that's used by the end user.



Emmanuel Rodriguez