Closed Bug 385205 Opened 17 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Language packs don't include isp/AB_CD/(gmail|googlemail).rdf

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(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

defect
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normal

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: askwar, Unassigned)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070601 Firefox/2.0.0.4
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After I installed the de.xpi german language pack on a en-US Thunderbird 2.0.0.4, the account wizard does not show "Google Mail" as account types.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkdir ~/tb_de
2. cd ~/tb_de
3. Download http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.4/linux-i686/de/thunderbird-2.0.0.4.tar.gz
4. Unpack it: tar xfvz `basename http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.4/linux-i686/de/thunderbird-2.0.0.4.tar.gz`
5. cd thunderbird
6. run "./thunderbird -ProfileManager"
7. Create a new profile
8. Start that profile
-> You'll see the account wizard show up and display 5 account types; among them is "Google Mail"

9. mkdir ~/tb_en-US
10. cd ~/tb_en-US
11. Download http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.4/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.0.4.tar.gz
12. Unpack it: tar xfvz `basename http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.4/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.0.4.tar.gz`
13. cd thunderbird
14. run "./thunderbird -ProfileManager"
15. Create a new profile
16. Start that profile
17. Cancel the account wizard
18. Open Add-ons manager by using Tools -> Add-ons
19. In a browser, go to ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.4/linux-i686/xpi/
20. Drag "de.xpi" to Add-ons window of Thunderbird, to install the de.xpi "extension"
21. Open "about:config", by going to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Advanced Configuration -> Config Editor
22. Change locale to de, by setting general.useragent.locale to de
23. Quit Thunderbird
24. Start Thunderbird again, using the profile created in step 9.
-> Account wizard will be shown. It'll have only 4 account types; "Google Mail" is missing



Expected Results:  
I'd expect that the "Google Mail" account type would be supported when installing the de.xpi German Language Pack as well.
Equally broken with Czech langpack.
Version: unspecified → 2.0
Equally broken with all locales, but after looking at locales/Makefile.in for a while, I know even less about how to fix it, and I think I injured my brain.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Account Manager → Build Config
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
QA Contact: account-manager → build
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: After installation of de.xpi on 2.0.0.4, no more Google Mail account type shown → Language packs don't include isp/AB_CD/(gmail|googlemail).rdf
Blocks: 367562
I don't expect this to work. I'm not sure if this is supposed to work, given that 

- gmail has trademarks problems in some regions
- we deal with those by regional defaults
- we only ship one, as part of the build
- we ship none as part of the language pack

Whether the fact that we're not including profile defaults into the language pack is a major problem or not is debatable. Note that most users will have gone through the profile creation wizard a long time before they're able to actually install a language pack, this really only affects installations aiming at multiple installed languages for a bunch of users. Which may be more of an issue with Thunderbird than for Firefox.

Not sure if we could fix this on the branch without busting the string freeze.
QA Contact: build → build-config
Depends on: 564656
We no longer ship gmail.rdf/googlemail.rdf as this has been replaced by the account configuration wizard. Closing this bug as we no longer need it.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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