On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 03:31, David Walser wrote: > It would make even more sense for people to know ahead > of time what they were getting, and have an easy way > to change it. Not confusing your users isn't > counter-intuitive at all :o)
Well, as someone else said, this is more a problem with annoying programs that don't read locales than anything else. As has been explained there's no simple way for Mandrake to fix the problem in a way satisfactory to everyone, since patching every non-compliant program to check locales on run is far too much work for the Mandrake team to do, so given that we are including applications which don't do all they should, someone is always going to be annoyed. (If we go back to Letter for Mozilla, that's fine for you as someone who selects USA for his locale, but what about the larger number of us who choose somewhere else for our locale but would still get Letter paper size in mozilla? It's just someone else having the problem then.) -- adamw
