Takao: > It seems LC_PAPER is GNU extensions but not POSIX. > http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Special-Shell-Variables.html > > > It may be better to use getenv("LC_PAPER") besides setlocale(LC_PAPER, > NULL) until the RFE is fixed.
Are you saying that we should modify evince to check the LC_PAPER environment variable, because it doesn't do so now? And this would allow people to set the default letter if they want? Do you have any ideas where & how LC_PAPER should be set for users? Brian > Darren Kenny-san wrote (05/27/09 07:52 PM): >> Hi Brian, >> >> On 26/05/2009 16:14, Brian Cameron wrote: >>> Darren: >>> >>> If you needed to modify the patch to get it to backport, then I'd >>> recommend updating it as a new attachment in the bug report and >>> encourage the maintainers to put this patch into the next 2.26 >>> release. I think it is a serious enough usability issue that 2.26 >>> users would appreciate this fix, especially if you already did all >>> the work to prepare the patch. >> >> I'm not sure what you mean - I backported the fix from the GIT changes >> - and the >> modifications were mainly just to get it to apply since other lines in >> the files >> had all changed and as such it wouldn't apply using the patch command. >> >> I can't see any benefit of having the community make a change in 2.26 >> when it's >> already fixed and working there. If you mean putting it into the next >> 2.22 >> release then that's slightly different, and maybe worth mentioning, >> but I can't >> imagine that there is likely to be a new 2.22 release of evince any >> time soon, >> but I've updated the bug anyway :) >> >>> We should also file an enhancement request upstream so that the evince >>> community can consider making the default letter size based on the >>> user's locale setting, as Jim suggests later in the thread. That >>> seems a reasonable enhancement request that someone in the community >>> might have an interest in working on. >> >> That already works upstream - Linux has the LC_PAPER locale variable - >> it's >> Solaris that's lacking in this department, so needs to be fixed on >> Solaris... >> >> I've logged an RFE to track this request: >> >> 6845408 - Solaris needs a mechanism to determine default print page >> size based on locale. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Darren. >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> >
