Skype Community > Skype doesn't remember interface language settings

Vince C.

Sun Oct 8 2006, 16:49

Hi.

Ever since I' tried Skype under (Gentoo) Linux it always forgot my language settings every other time I started my graphical environment. (I've run Gnome and now KDE.)

When I install or upgrade Skype and change the interface language the language does change immediately. But if I restart KDE (or Gnome) language is back to English. If I change the interface language any further nothing happens and the interface language remains English until I reinstall Skype.

This has been *very* annoying since it happened with every versions of Skype under Linux. I'm running Skype 1.3.0.53.

Will there be a bug fix?

Thanks.

Vince C.

Sat Oct 21 2006, 11:29

Nobody cares...

deltatux

Mon Oct 23 2006, 03:39

Check that your .Skype directory is writable

deltatux

Vince C.

Mon Oct 23 2006, 08:51

QUOTE(deltatux @ Mon Oct 23 2006, 03:39) [snapback]310849[/snapback]

Check that your .Skype directory is writable

It is... I've created a ticket on their web site and they'll send the suggestion to their developing team...

Dii

Wed Nov 1 2006, 00:14

Have a look where is skype. It's looking for a few directories only, it it's not there, the settings won't work.

It should be in
/usr/share/skype/
or
/usr/local/share/skype
or you can add the path to skype_resource_path, but to copy it easier.

I hope it helps.

Vince C.

Wed Nov 1 2006, 17:38

QUOTE(Dii @ Wed Nov 1 2006, 00:14) [snapback]314258[/snapback]

Have a look where is skype. It's looking for a few directories only, it it's not there, the settings won't work.

It should be in
/usr/share/skype/
or
/usr/local/share/skype
or you can add the path to skype_resource_path, but to copy it easier.

I hope it helps.

Aaaaah

Thanks a lot for your tip! I did change the .desktop file so that the run command looks like

CODE

skype --resources-path /opt/skype

just like in /opt/skype/skype.sh and now I get my settings remembered. Note I now realize my settings were actually remembered; it's just that Skype didn't *apply* them (since the resources path was not specified)...

Did they submit that as a suggestion to their dev team ?

...

EDIT: I'm posting the fix right now in Gentoo forums where some people have been asking too. Thanks a whople lot again.

cartoon_nate

Thu Nov 2 2006, 22:52

On a related note, Is it possible to start skype for the very first time in German?

I know that in the dynamically generated folder ".Skype", there is an xml file that holds the <Language> container. Is it possible to tweak something (perhaps the .desktop file) so that it launches in German by default?

Also...just brainstorming here... but I haven't tired it yet, but does anyone know if the Linux package downloaded through the DE website loads in German for the first time?

Vince C.

Fri Nov 3 2006, 11:54

QUOTE(cartoon_nate @ Thu Nov 2 2006, 22:52) [snapback]315110[/snapback]

On a related note, Is it possible to start skype for the very first time in German?

I know that in the dynamically generated folder ".Skype", there is an xml file that holds the <Language> container. Is it possible to tweak something (perhaps the .desktop file) so that it launches in German by default?

Also...just brainstorming here... but I haven't tired it yet, but does anyone know if the Linux package downloaded through the DE website loads in German for the first time?

I don't know if the German package displays in German the very first time.

However I know that the above trick works until KDE is restarted. In fact I'm not sure it's a Skype bug rather than a KDE bug. When you run KDE system guard you can see /opt/skype/skype binary loaded without arguments, especially that --resources-path.

Problem still not solved.

deltatux

Mon Nov 6 2006, 23:16

Yes, it should be able to if you load up using the resource path given above.

deltatux