On Wednesday 31 July 2002 04:02 pm, Brad Felmey wrote: > On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 14:46, Steve Fox wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 13:22, Brad Felmey wrote: > > > The argument is still valid. If I choose US, I expect US everywhere, > > > not just where it wasn't convenient to implement. > > > > So write a patch to the installer to configure every application that > > doesn't bother to read your locale. > > It needs to be more abstract than that. It needs to do so any time the > locale is changed, not just during install. Hmmm... I'd have to ask - how often, once a system is set up and configured for a user does the locale settings actually change? EVERY installation needs to have a locale set when it's set up, so it makes sense to do something with this at install time. I would guess that less than a fraction of a percent of the systems will have this change.
Granted, changing it once is a lot nicer than changing it in a number of different places when it changes, but from the standpoint of most usability for the least effort, setting it on install without worrying about propagating the change if it is changed makes sense. V.
