start of kde5 changes env var LANG

[Steve Wills]

Hi,

On 12/7/20 10:53 AM, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently ran into similar issues. I did some looking around, and discovered
> that KDE/KF5 was trying to use DBUS to get account information, and failing. I
> installed sysutils/accountsservice and I find a massive difference in how it
> runs. For one thing, startup is much quicker. For another, my CHARSET and LANG
> settings from /etc/login.conf are respected.
> 
> I'm beginning to think there should be a dependency on sysutils/
> accountsservice for x11/kde5.

Improved startup time and use of login.conf does sound good, but 
accountsservice requires polkit. Personally, I'm not a fan of polkit, 
because of it's suid pkexec linked with larger libs and because it 
doesn't seem to be that actively maintained.

Steve