Hi,
Just the other day I decided to install OpenSUSE on my new-old computer for my father (it came with windows 10 which is just awful) and the requirement was quite simple: browser (firefox) and FreeCell.
Even though I set language as “Polish” in the installer, afterwards the whole system was in English. In KDE there wasn’t any option to change language as only “C” and “American English” was available. After a bit of searching I installed -locale- packages for everything plasma (and everything that had anything related to translation/localisation) and afterwards most of the OS was in Polish (not all parts of Plasma though but from what I saw in their translation portal it doesn’t have 100% polish translation but I’ll help with that later on).
However - I couldn’t select Polish in on of the KDE apps (KPatience, KMines) - they only had “American english” selected and nothing else available.
I tried setting locale via localectl but it didn’t help.
Interestingly enough, when I installed Aisleriot from suse repositories it was in english but when I reinstalled it from flathub it switched to polish (on it’s own).
Any hints how can I get KDE apps/system to be in Polish?
Well… kinda. This is what I found but as you noticed, it says: “Applies to openSUSE Leap 15.6”
And the latest / last Leap is, recently released, 16.0. Which removed YaST:
The Leap 16 beta announcement was the first public note that explicitly stated the new direction for openSUSE. It said that YaST had been retired in favor of Agama, Cockpit for system management, and Myrlyn (formerly YQPkg) for package management. (LWN looked at Cockpit in March 2024.) The announcement also noted that YaST would continue to be available in Tumbleweed but would no longer be developed by SUSE. “If someone is interested in the maintenance of YaST for further development and bugfixes, the sources are available on github.”
I used Leap (and not Tumbleweed) because it would be for my father and it should JustWork without too much changes.
I do think these challenges are manageable, even if they can’t be fully eliminated. My best experiences with a package-based KDE-focused distro have been with Fedora KDE, where they do a great job of it:
They prevent removing critical packages that would break the system.
And the result is fantastic. I 100% recommend Fedora KDE to anyone who wants a good experience with a GUI-focused package-based operating system. It’s hard to go wrong with it.
