Re: [kde] Odd Language settings - partially solved !

Bogus Zaba wrote:
Bram Schoenmakers wrote:

Op maandag 04 juni 2007, schreef Bogus Zaba:


After experimenting a bit with language settings (Personal Settings >
Regional & Accessibility) I have ended up wtih a system in which some
items (KMenu captions mainly) are in Polish while the rest of my system
is in english. I have tried to remove all mention of Polish in the
settings, but the KMenu still insists on coming up in Polish. Is there a
file in ~/.kde/ that I can edit to change this back ?

Thanks

Bogus Zaba


Have you restarted KDE in the meantime?

Kind regards,



Yes, when you change settings in the control centre you get a message
that tells you not to expect changes to take effect until you restart
relevant programmes. For the KMenu I took that to mean re-starting KDE.
I have not re-started the PC from scratch.

Bogus


OK, I think I have worked out roughly what is happening.

In ~/.kde/share/config there is a file called kdeglobals. It contains a
section called [locale] which stores country, language, date format etc.
When you change regional settings in the KDE "personal settings" menu
(KDE 3.5.1 - used to be called Control Centre in previous KDE
versions?) it seems not to do a simple overwrite of the kdeglobals file.
Instead it writes new files to the same directory called
kdeglobalsXXXXXX.new where XXXXXX are a string of random (to my eye)
alphanumeric chars. Once I moved these (I had 42 of them!) into another
directory, all my captions, menu entries etc are shown in the language
chosen in the (now unique) kdeglobals file.

Anybody know why this works this way and whether the user can control it
in any way?

Bogus
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