Gnome's Activities Overview search is always in English, regardless of the system language

Run these commands on my 15.04 machine:

$ LANGUAGE=de
$ echo $(gettext -d gnome-control-center-2.0 Details)
Informationen
$ echo $(gettext -d gnome-control-center-2.0 'View information about your system')
Informationen über Ihr System anzeigen
$

Looks like this is a bug in gnome-shell(?) rather than a translation issue.

So how to proceed next then?

On 2015-09-03 16:20, sojusnik wrote:
> So how to proceed next then?

Two options: Either dig into the source of the applicable package(s) and write a patch, or wait and hope that a GNOME developer take a closer look soon.

sojusnik, does this affect any of the other search providers or only gnome-control-center?

It seems to affect only gnome-control-center.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I have the same problem with current 15.10 (still beta), even though with French (see attached screenshot).

Problem persists even after a clean install of Ubuntu 15.10.

Are they still in English even in the most recent 16.04 Ubuntu version?

Yes. The bug is still out there.

2016-04-20 13:55 GMT+02:00 sojusnik <email address hidden>:

> Are they still in English even in the most recent 16.04 Ubuntu version?
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Yes, the bug is still out there.

I also can confirm that the bug is still alive...

This bug is still present in Ubuntu 16.04 with Gnome 3.18.

Cmon, this is still present in 16.10. Please fix this.

Let's hope, that the devs will finally fix this, when Gnome-Shell will become the default DE in Ubuntu *fingers crossed*

Note that 'Settings' is two different apps depending on which shell you're using:

Unity7: unity-control-center
Gnome Shell: gnome-control-center

Still in English in Ubuntu 17.10 ...

I also experience the same bug in freshly installed Artful (17.10). Italian locale is set but items from settings are displayed in english and application search seems to be based on english keywords.

@Sebastien Bacher
Why only "low"? It obviously affects every non-English user and seems easy to fix. Imho, it should be at least medium, if not high.

I agree. Although this is not a critical bug and I could decide to switch to an English locale, it still is a major limitation for non-English speaking users ruining their Gnome shell workflow. Just consider, as an example the attached screenshots of "Impostazioni" window ("Settings"). If one wants to quickly open the "Sfondo" (background) tab using <SUPER>+string through the search bar he has to remember to digit "background" to obtain any results. The same applies to "Energia" (digit "power").

It's a bug indeed but it's not really that important, most users go to the settings to browse the categories and don't go to the overview to look for a specific section. Would be nice to get fixed still though

I think this bug definitely deserves bigger priority. It can be a small issue, but it makes Ubuntu look bad in the eyes of any regular (non-English) user.

I totally agree with AsciiWolf, this is this kind of polish that made me to
give up on Ubuntu Gnome in the past.

2017-10-31 14:34 GMT+01:00 AsciiWolf <email address hidden>:

> I think this bug definitely deserves bigger priority. It can be a small
> issue, but it makes Ubuntu look bad in the eyes of any regular (non-
> English) user.
>
> ** Also affects: ubuntu-translations
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
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> Importance: Undecided
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

My personal opinion is that the bug nature, its details and effect on gnome-shell are clearly outlined now. I am not a developer and certainly not in the position to evaluate a bug importance or its priority. Unless a patch is proposed, simple complaining does not help. Likely, as more users move to GNOME, the bug would gather higher priority as an effect of more people being affected.

Same problem for me for french traduction.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/44/3/1509546937-bug-ko.png

It's not critical bug but I hope it will be fixed more quick now than ubuntu gnome and ubuntu are same team now.

+1 Ubuntu 16.04.3 and Brazilian Portuguese Traduction.

Same bug in Ubuntu 17.10, system set to Polish, settings are searched in English.

Today I was testing the live session of Fedora 26 (Gnome 3.24) and this bug is not present there. After setting the localization and restarting the session, settings and search are translated correctly as supposed. I hope this could help to address the problem.

This is probably not an upstream GNOME bug, it's most likely a bug in the gettext Ubuntu package.

On 2017-11-20 12:10, AsciiWolf wrote:
> ... it's most likely a bug in the gettext Ubuntu package.

Don't think so. Please see comment #1.

it's rather an issue in the gnome-control-center shell provider code not dealing with the Ubuntu way of using gettext for desktop file instead inline translations

Ah. So, it's an upstream or Ubuntu issue?

Piotr Drąg's comment from the upstream bug report: It works in every distribution except Ubuntu, which doesn’t put translations directly in .desktop files (what it does instead, I do not know). So either this is an upstream bug and g-c-c’s search provider needs to deal with Ubuntu’s special case, or a downstream bug and Ubuntu needs to start using standard .desktop files like everyone else.

Iain wrote a patch on the upstream bug

Uploaded to A (needs manually accepting) + B. Thanks!

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.26.2-0ubuntu2

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gnome-control-center (1:3.26.2-0ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/search-provider-locale.patch: Backport patch from upstream
    to set up the search provider such that setlocale() has been called early
    enough for results to be translated. (LP: #1491787)

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:21:54 +0000

Hello sojusnik, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-control-center into artful-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/1:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-artful to verification-done-artful. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-artful. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

SRU verification for Artful:
I have reproduced the problem with gnome-control-center 1:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 in artful-updates and have verified that the version of gnome-control-center 1:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.2 in -proposed fixes the issue.

Marking as verification-done

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This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.2

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gnome-control-center (1:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.2) artful; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/search-provider-locale.patch: Backport patch from upstream
    to set up the search provider such that setlocale() has been called early
    enough for results to be translated. (LP: #1491787)

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:07:01 +0000