Keyboard layout preference panel changes my locale with no action
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I installed my Ubuntu 12.04 system (using Gnome Classic) with "English (US)" as the default locale (I performed the installation in US), and then took the laptop back to China, where I reside most of the year.
Since then, I have found two unwanted behaviors in the keyboard layout preference panel:
1. When I open the keyboard layout preferences**, it goes first to the Layouts tab. But, it has already silently changed the "display language" from my original English (US) setting to Chinese (China). I did not do anything to make this change. There is no warning in the interface that the locale has changed. The only way to see that it changed is to click on the Language tab -- which, of course, no user is going to do unless they want to change the locale.
** System Settings > Keyboard > "Keyboard Layouts" link
This confused me mightily on my next login, when all menus and everything else were suddenly in Chinese, due to no action of my own.
I think it's a reasonable expectation on the user's part that simply opening a preference panel will not overwrite options that have already been configured. The Language setting should remain unchanged until the user explicitly changes it!
2. At the same time, the file "~/.signature" is deleted. I can't think of a good reason for this either.
