Quickshot crashes on unknown locale

This is probably a "Won't Fix", since we don't have the architecture to report errors at this stage, but it will be fixed in 1.0.

Er... I meant "Invalid". Or something.

The status indicators aren't really meant for alpha-stage projects.

This bug happens when python-babel doesn't recognize a certain locale, like Latin in this case.

I've added in a quick workaround so it won't crash anymore, the only downside is that you'll see "la" now instead of "Latin" when the language isn't recognized, but that's better than crashing.

I'll look into properly fixing that too for future versions.

also affects netherlands (aruba) in the latest version of quickshot both in bzr and released version

Mask' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
Using http://screenshots.ubuntu-manual.org/ for network operations
Completing window initialisation
Determining active language
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/quickshot", line 673, in <module>
    window = NewQuickshotWindow()
  File "/usr/bin/quickshot", line 636, in NewQuickshotWindow
    window.finish_initializing(builder)
  File "/usr/bin/quickshot", line 140, in finish_initializing
    get("languagelabel").set_text(self.get_active_language()[1])
  File "/usr/bin/quickshot", line 326, in get_active_language
    short_code = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 478, in getdefaultlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 410, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: nl_AW

It`s affects on Serbian language:

quickshot@quickshot-computer:~$ quickshot
** (quickshot:6308): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
** (quickshot:6308): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
** (quickshot:6308): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/quickshot", line 673, in <module>
    window = NewQuickshotWindow()
  File "/usr/bin/quickshot", line 636, in NewQuickshotWindow
    window.finish_initializing(builder)
  File "/usr/bin/quickshot", line 140, in finish_initializing
    get("languagelabel").set_text(self.get_active_language()[1])
  File "/usr/bin/quickshot", line 326, in get_active_language
    short_code = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 478, in getdefaultlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 410, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: sr_RS

I can confirm that it doesn't work for any of the Serbian language locals.

This is related to the python locale module I have filled a bug on it here http://bugs.python.org/issue8374

The latest cd and ppa updates fix this.