On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:09 PM, John Layt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 01:15:03 Mark wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Disclaimer: This is just an idea. I don't have plans to make this and i > > sadly lack the time to even implement it. However, someone might be > > interested to mentor this and someone else might be interested to do this > > as a GSoC project. Provided that something alike isn't already existing. > I > > didn't do a lot of searching prior of making this mail. > > Hi Mark, > > I'm one of the maintainers of the KHolidays library which provides the > holiday > events throughout KDE, and sometimes contributor to the plasma > clock/calendar. > > You can find some information about KHolidays at > http://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/KHolidays , in particular some details > about > plans for a new version of the file format and library that should be more > flexible and portable and easier to contribute to. Ideally the data files > would be a cross-desktop effort. > > You can also find some more details in the slides for a talk I gave at the > last Desktop Summit. Sadly no video survived :-) See > https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/sessions/defining-common-standards- > calendar-systems-and-holidays > > It could be an interesting GSoC project to try implement the new file > format > and library, but I'm not sure I can mentor it, I tried last year and made a > hash of it, and I'm unlikely to have enough time this year either. > > It does sound like there are some problems with your config, Holidays in > the > Plasma Clock do seem to work correctly for most people now. Perhaps find > and > delete the config file for the clock? Or try it in a new user to see if > it is > broken there? > > Well, i found that one. My system was set at en_us for the locale. I switched it to dutch. That works fine for the calendar. However, now some applications are displayed in dutch as well and that's not what i wanted. I somehow want to let my system know i'm in the Netherlands, but want to have the english language.
-- using archlinux btw -- > Cheers! > > John. > > > Regards, Mark
