Public bug reported:
GNU/Linux, LSB and Ubuntu need a system wide units setting
(imperial/metric)
As far as I can see there is no recorded system wide setting for
prefered units. Several users of various applications have noted and
complained that one or another application should guess their prefered
units (for example by looking at their locale setting) #164760 (KDE-
Admin), #171608 & #171277 (Inkscape),
Some applications (#37938 weather applet) try themselves to guess the
correct units by looking at the locale setting. This is a rather
innefective approach as it repeats unneeded work coding lookup tables of
locales -> units, instead of simply reading a system variable. And
others applications, such as OpenOffice, seem to just always default to
imperial.
So, in summary: instead of each application setting units, Linux/GNU
should provide a system wide setting.
(I have sent a message including this bug report to the lsb-discuss --
Linux Standard Base (LSB) discussion email list)
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Linux, LSB and Ubuntu need a system wide units setting (imperial/metric)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177104
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