Re: GDM Language list...

[Jens Petersen <petersen redhat com>]

----- "Bill Nottingham" <notting redhat com> wrote:
> Well, there are languages we would support fine that don't have a
> specific language-support group (most anything that uses a Latin-1
> like
> charset, and no specific input method.) Moreover, the groups that are
> installed aren't actually recorded anywhere on the installed system.
> (And having gdm attempt to discover/compute what groups are installed
> is completely impractical.)

The YumLangpackPlugin Feature that I am planning to propose for F12 may help with this providing langpack-support metapackages.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/YumLangpackPlugin

About the gdm menu itself I chatted to Ankit earlier in the week and came up with this rfe:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505484

asking if we could have some gdm system config to control which languages appear by default in the menu.

Jens