--- Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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,
They don't have to patch the apps to check locales. They could just have an app that manually changes the settings. It wouldn't be much work at all. > 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 Most people choose US as their locale. > for our locale but would still get Letter paper size > in mozilla? Ideally not, but they shouldn't be patching it to A4 either. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
