Please add a language chooser

[schweer-guest]

Debian Edu tries to provide a desktop environment with multiple language support. Both GNOME and KDE come with an internal language/region chooser. LDM (the LTSP login screen) has a language chooser since years. For Xfce, MATE, LXDE and LXQt a laguage choice doesn't seem to exist. The Lightdm GTK greeter can be configured to show a language chooser, see: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/blob/master/share/debian-edu-config/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf It would be nice to have such a chooser for the Arctica greeter as well.

[LAfricain]

I tried with dconf-editor to add an entry but it's not working. I tried also to modify:

/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/31_ubuntu-mate.gschema.override

Not working.

[LAfricain]

The workaround was to remove arctica-greeter and keep lightdm.

[ericmarceau-rogers]

Will Arctica-Greeter implement a toggle to present a language selection menu next to the power-on/off button on the login screen?

If the language selected is not "installed", can it be administrator-controlled to permit/disallow automatic installation of all files associated with that language for all installed applications?

Yes! I do mean trigger a system admin task to perform all the relevant language packs for all those applications that are already installed.

I see the menu selection (from the login screen) to trigger a pop-up as the first action taken after the user-session is fully open. That pop-up would request confirmation of the intent to perform the intended action, and if so, it would trigger an administrator password prompt to proceed with the task.