Installed XFCE 4.4.3 on OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release, using the graphical installer. Files went to /usr/local, and asides a few minor manual tweakings everything worked fine. Except for one thing: Though I am generally using de_DE.UTF-8 locale, all the XFCE related applications appear in English no matter what I do. Doing some debugging (including moving .mo files to /usr/share/locale and messing with some environment variables related to this) in course of discussing this on #xfce/freenode couldn't resolve the problem. [kr@n428 12:00:52] ~> locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= truss output of thunar attached, it seems /usr/local/share/locale is never accessed?
Created attachment 1992 truss output for thunar
You can resolve this ticket. If XFCE 4.8.x has all of the locales in place then things will work properly. Some Xfce ports delete all of the locales or some of them to save packaging space and it can cause issues for Xfce G11n internationalization usage.
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