Please note that for 5 years or so Ubuntu has provided GUIs for setting language on one hand, and the formats related locale categories as a whole on the other hand, separately. It's true that there has been no GUI for setting the various formats related locale categories independently. OTOH, I have followed the language/locale related bug reports and Ask Ubuntu questions closely for quite a while, and my impression is that few users would rate that feature high. (It's also possible to fine tune the settings by editing e.g. ~/.profile.)
It should be noted that the example in the summary of this bug report - changing 12/24-hour time and date format independently - can't be accomplished by picking the different locale categories individually anyway, since both are controlled by LC_TIME. To do that we would either need to add a feature that creates and maintains a custom locale for each user, or handle it in respective application. As a first step, to make some progress and make it possible to fix bug #1350275, I would recommend that a GUI is added to ubuntu-system- settings for simply selecting regional formats independently from selecting the display language. As illustrated by Alexey's workaround, the backend in accountsservice for such a feature is already in place. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-ui-toolkit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1392699 Title: Can't change locale settings (e.g. language, 12/24-hour time, date format) independently Status in libc package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in ubuntu-ui-toolkit package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: A. Try to use US English, but with all apps using 24-hour instead of 12-hour time. Or: B. Try to use UK English, but with all apps using YYYY-MM-DD date format. What happens: You can't. What should happen: You can. Since Ubuntu has existed, it has used the GNU locale system. This system assumes that every single person using a particular locale wants exactly the same settings for time display, date display, currency display, alphabetizing, and number formatting. <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Effects-of- Locale.html> Windows, Mac OS, and (to a lesser extent) iOS have always been more flexible: setting a locale sets appropriate defaults for these settings, but you can also change them individually. Ubuntu should do the same. This might involve changing the locale system itself, or it might involve changing all relevant toolkits so that they ignore the locale system when appropriate. It would also involve adding settings in System Settings to customize the individual locale details. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libc/+bug/1392699/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
