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    [SOLVED] GIMP's GUI reads English despite of Plasma's regional setting - French in my case

    Although I had installed Kubuntu 20.04 using French language from the start, GIMP's GUI was reading English...
    Despite of the fact that GIMP's Preferences > Interface > Language option was set to "System language" by default.

    But I've noticed that Ubuntu package language-pack-gnome-fr was not installed on my machine.
    Installing it was enough to solve this issue with GIMP's GUI

    As a side note, here were Ubuntu language packages installed by default while installing Kubuntu 20.04 (obviously not enough!):

    language-pack-en-base/focal,focal,now 1:20.04+20200416 all [installé]
    language-pack-en/focal,focal,now 1:20.04+20200416 all [installé]
    language-pack-fr-base/focal,focal,now 1:20.04+20200416 all [installé, automatique]
    language-pack-fr/focal,focal,now 1:20.04+20200416 all [installé]
    language-pack-kde-en/focal,focal,now 1:19.10.0ubuntu1 all [installé]
    language-pack-kde-fr/focal,focal,now 1:19.10.0ubuntu1 all [installé]

    I hope this post can speed up resolution for others facing the same issue...
    Tags: gimp, gui, language
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    Thank you.

    There's something screwy in language handling of GTK apps in Kubuntu 20.04. When I release upgraded from 19.10 all my GTK apps started using French! So did a lot of command line programmes. Even gvim and vim. I had French as the third language in system settings, after British and American English. While I love French (what I can remember of it), I've never used it on a computer. I think I added the language to get some diacritics, or maybe ligatures like "œ". I did not have language-pack-gnome-fr or language-pack-gnome-en installed.
    Regards, John Little
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      Dear Valdo,

      thank you very much for the solution.
      I have had the same problem with GIMP and German localisation.

      After installing language-pack-gnome-de via apt (language-pack-gnome-de-base was installed automatically by this) GIMP is finally localised.
      Krita 4.2.9 is still American-English-only, though (will open a seperate thread for Krita these days)…

      Everyone have a nice weekend! :-)
      Last edited by Schwarzer Kater; May 02, 2020, 01:52 AM. Reason: typos
      Debian KDE & LXQt • Kubuntu & Lubuntu • openSUSE KDE • Windows • macOS X
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        Originally posted by Schwarzer Kater View Post
        Dear Valdo,

        thank you very much for the solution.
        I have had the same problem with GIMP and German localisation.

        After installing language-pack-gnome-de via apt (language-pack-gnome-de-base was installed automatically by this) GIMP is finally localised.
        Krita 4.2.9 is still American-English-only, though (will open a seperate thread for Krita these days)…

        Everyone have a nice weekend! :-)
        Did you try installing language-pack-kde-de as well?

        Just saying in case any KDE user needs such package.
        Multibooting: Kubuntu Noble 24.04
        Before: Jammy 22.04, Focal 20.04, Precise 12.04 Xenial 16.04 and Bionic 18.04
        Win XP, 7 & 10 sadly
        Using Linux since June, 2008
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          I did not explicitly install language-pack-kde-de, but it was already installed by default (I think KDE language packs are automatically installed when you chose localised keyboard settings during the installation).

          I think on Valdo's computer language-pack-kde-fr was also already there as he wrote so…
          Last edited by Schwarzer Kater; May 02, 2020, 03:50 AM. Reason: typos, as usual
          Debian KDE & LXQt • Kubuntu & Lubuntu • openSUSE KDE • Windows • macOS X
          Desktop: Lenovo ThinkCentre M75s • Laptop: Apple MacBook Pro 13" • and others

          get rid of Snap script (20.04 +) • reinstall Snap for release-upgrade script (20.04 +)
          install traditional Firefox script (22.04 +)​ • install traditional Thunderbird script (24.04)​
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            Originally posted by Schwarzer Kater View Post
            Krita 4.2.9 is still American-English-only, though (will open a seperate thread for Krita these days)…
            Oh you're right! I hadn't noticed about Krita yet

            Well, that one is simple to fix:
            Code:
            $ sudo apt install krita-l10n
            Another issue is that Krita systematically crashes on exit... but that should be raised to https://bugs.kde.org/ (if not already done by someone else, I didn't check).
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              Originally posted by Valdo View Post
              Although I had installed Kubuntu 20.04 using French language from the start, GIMP's GUI was reading English...
              Despite of the fact that GIMP's Preferences > Interface > Language option was set to "System language" by default.

              But I've noticed that Ubuntu package language-pack-gnome-fr was not installed on my machine.
              Installing it was enough to solve this issue with GIMP's GUI

              As a side note, here were Ubuntu language packages installed by default while installing Kubuntu 20.04 (obviously not enough!):

              language-pack-en-base/focal,focal,now 1:20.04+20200416 all [installé]
              language-pack-en/focal,focal,now 1:20.04+20200416 all [installé]
              language-pack-fr-base/focal,focal,now 1:20.04+20200416 all [installé, automatique]
              language-pack-fr/focal,focal,now 1:20.04+20200416 all [installé]
              language-pack-kde-en/focal,focal,now 1:19.10.0ubuntu1 all [installé]
              language-pack-kde-fr/focal,focal,now 1:19.10.0ubuntu1 all [installé]

              I hope this post can speed up resolution for others facing the same issue...
              Thanks for your post, very help for me!
              In my case, I was have the same problem (in my case my system language is spanish) and gimp appears in english.
              Like you indicate, with the package language-pack-gnome-es the problem solved.

              The others packages, like you indicate, are installed automatic.

              Again, thanks.
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