[Tex/LaTex] Redefining the item label in beamerarticle

Question

I want to use $\bullet$ for the item label. In most LaTeX classes I would use

\usepackage{enumitem}
\setitemize{label=$\bullet$}

However this won't work in beamerarticle since enumitem doesn't play nice with everything beamer-related (see for instance Trouble combining enumitem and beamer)

Here is an example that pdflatex will fail to compile (in TeXLive 2014).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{beamerarticle}
\setitemize{label=$\bullet$}
\begin{document}

\begin{description}
\item[first item] blabla
\item[second item] blabla
\end{description}

\end{document}

Note that I don't want to redefine the default description environment in article, only replace the "-" label used in the itemize environment with a $\bullet$.

I also tried

\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{$\bullet$}

but it needs to be put it in every document. There is a conflict with the french option of babel. See for instance:

with test.cls containing

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} 
\ProvidesClass{test}
\LoadClass{article}

\RequirePackage[french]{babel}
\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{$\bullet$}
\endinput

the following uses the regular "-" for item labels whereas it uses bullets if babel is not loaded with the french option.

\documentclass{test}
\title{Essai}
\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\item blabla
\item blabla
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

Any ideas?

Answer 1

With the french module for babel, you need to do the change \AtBeginDocument:

\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{$\bullet$}}

A complete example:

\documentclass{article}
\title{Essai}

\RequirePackage[french]{babel}
\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{$\bullet$}}


\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\item blabla
\item blabla
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

Your test.cls then will be

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} 
\ProvidesClass{test}
\LoadClass{article}

\RequirePackage[french]{babel}
\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{$\bullet$}}
\endinput