On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Locale -> country, region, and language -> Preferred languages, and move English to the top of the list. You should probably look at all the options in that module, there is a lot you can configure. -Todd
