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Dear Developers,

Thank you for releasing MX Locale just now.
This manager is far better than the commandline tool "dpkg-reconfigure locales".

I think you should add "OK" button inside Locale Management Tab.
And I hope you would add ur_IN and ur_PK locales for Urdu language as default, because it seems Urdu is a major language according to websites.

Best regards

user-green wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:08 am And I hope you would add ur_IN and ur_PK locales for Urdu language as default, because it seems Urdu is a major language according to websites.

User can add and select as default those locales mentioned:
Add: Select: Set as system default: which will be available at next login / reboot.
Note with Lightdm login manager user might need to select at login the session locale,
b/c AccountService may had remembered the last used locale.

Thank you, fehlix

I quite understood what you explained.
But I meant it seemed "Reset locale list to default" in Locale Management Tab does not include Urdu locale, which might cause a trouble for Live-USB users.

Apart from above, Help button at the bottom does not work. Help manual will not appear.

Best regards

user-green wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:22 am But I meant it seemed "Reset locale list to default" in Locale Management Tab does not include Urdu locale, which might cause a trouble for Live-USB users.

Ahh, OK, that default is what the LiveSystem or a fresh install would have been enabled by default,
and the liveSystem currently does not include either of both ur_* locale.
The reset as default is rather ment for cases, where user want to create a snapshot with the full default live-set of enabled locale. So might be easier to use the search field with "ur_" and add both UTF-8 locale manually.

So might be easier to use the search field with "ur_" and add both UTF-8 locale manually.

I realized it is easy to add desired locales to the default set without replacing it.

As for "dpkg-reconfigure locales", this command can not do like this; it will delete all the previous settings.

Thank you.

PS.
I think it is not good for Live System that there is no "ur_" entry at Boot Menu (in Language-Keyboard-Timezone).

user-green wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:41 pm PS.
I think it is not good for Live System that there is no "ur_" entry at Boot Menu (in Language-Keyboard-Timezone).

I read this as a change request, right? Anything else?
To add:

user-green wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:41 pm I realized it is easy to add desired locales to the default set without replacing it.

The easiest ( fastest) way might be this:
1st: Remove all lokales and keep only the current default locale.
Next:
Add only the small number of additional locales needed, e.g. use search field to quicker find and enabled thos.
Also not none UTF-8 locales will not be available as system default locale, otherwise you would get lots
of unreadable chars displayed in tools and menus.
The process will than fairly quick generate only the small number added.
Otherwise if you would keep the full default set of above 60++ locales. The re-generation
of locales would indeed re-generate all again. B/c "MX Locale" is using the same locale-gen tool as dpkg-reconfigure is using, which is taking all enabled entries from /etc/locale.gen.

I tested several cases and noticed that:

In Live System with persistence, it is needed to keep default set of locales. Otherwise, a locale other than default can not be enabled during login session.

For example, although the default locale is English, French locale is needed when we try to use French locale during login session by selecting it at Boot Menu.

That is, selection of locale at boot menu does not simply reflect its locale during login session automatically. Application menu, for example, remains default locale.

Best regards