Setting the system language with KDE

KDE has a setting to change the language of KDE itself, but it does not change the system locale. I would like to see such a feature for people who do not use the terminal

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Not quite sure what you mean with system locale.

Each user has their own locale settings, so do you mean the one userroot has?

Or the default locale that newly created used get until they change it?

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As @krake says, the settings here are stored per-user, not systemwide.

The ability to change the locale system-wide via the System Settings page hasn’t been implemented. It’s tracked by https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428590https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428590, and you can feel free to CC yourself on it to be notified if and when the feature gets implemented!

Until then, you’ll have to change the locale systemwide manually by editing the /etc/locale.conf file. Note that the file may be somewhere else depending on which OS you’re using; on a Debian-based OS, for example, it’ll be found at /etc/default/locale.

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