On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 23:05, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: > 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.
Multiple foreign users and/or LTSP come to mind. -- Brad Felmey
