Public bug reported:
Regional formats should be customizable. Currently the user is capable
of selecting a locale, and that locale will determine how dates are
displayed, the first day of the week, etc. However, it is not possible
to override any of these choices -- it's a 'take it or leave it'
decision. There are several problems with that:
1. If the system language is English, and I set the RF to Hungarian, the
names of months, days will be Hungarian, while the rest of the interface
remains English, which is confusing.
2. RF settings apply to the command line too; once again, introducing a
different date format, names of days and months, which may cause scripts
to stop working. That may be a problem for developers (or for users who
download scripts from a developer's page, which, with smartphones,
Calibre, etc., is not so uncommon as someone might think). The settings
for the GUI and the command line should be distinct.
3. Very often one would like to change just one setting (A4 paper size
for printing, Monday as the first day of the week, etc.), which is
currently not possible.
I understand there was a similar bug, number 40669. However, the fix
only added the Regional Formats tab, and ignored part of the problem of
the reporter: "it's impossible to configure a system that uses English
GUI strings and the rest in native format."
This functionality has been available in Windows and KDE forever. Ubuntu
has parted ways with Gnome with regard to the DE, and it would be very
welcome if we could also say goodbye to the Gnome mindset and actually
give some power to the user. After all, even smartphones, which are
definitely consumer devices, allow this type of customization.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jul 14 11:32:04 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-03 (71 days ago)
** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1024663
Title:
Custom regional formats
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Regional formats should be customizable. Currently the user is capable
of selecting a locale, and that locale will determine how dates are
displayed, the first day of the week, etc. However, it is not possible
to override any of these choices -- it's a 'take it or leave it'
decision. There are several problems with that:
1. If the system language is English, and I set the RF to Hungarian,
the names of months, days will be Hungarian, while the rest of the
interface remains English, which is confusing.
2. RF settings apply to the command line too; once again, introducing
a different date format, names of days and months, which may cause
scripts to stop working. That may be a problem for developers (or for
users who download scripts from a developer's page, which, with
smartphones, Calibre, etc., is not so uncommon as someone might
think). The settings for the GUI and the command line should be
distinct.
3. Very often one would like to change just one setting (A4 paper size
for printing, Monday as the first day of the week, etc.), which is
currently not possible.
I understand there was a similar bug, number 40669. However, the fix
only added the Regional Formats tab, and ignored part of the problem
of the reporter: "it's impossible to configure a system that uses
English GUI strings and the rest in native format."
This functionality has been available in Windows and KDE forever.
Ubuntu has parted ways with Gnome with regard to the DE, and it would
be very welcome if we could also say goodbye to the Gnome mindset and
actually give some power to the user. After all, even smartphones,
which are definitely consumer devices, allow this type of
customization.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jul 14 11:32:04 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-03 (71 days ago)
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