Comment 4 for bug 866062

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 866062] Re: SetLanguage(): Write ~/.pam_environment instead of ~/.profile

Gunnar Hjalmarsson [2011-10-04 20:16 -0000]:
> This does sound interesting. As you know, I'd like to drop ~/.profile
> for the purpose, but so far I have had a few new accountsservice
> properties in mind instead. One advantage with using a-s is that the
> locales can be set correctly even if $HOME can't be accessed.

If we can't access $HOME, we can't start a session, so that's not an
issue. It is only an issue if we want to implement a language selector
in the lightdm greeter, but then we can ask accountsservice.