Re: Preferences [Was: a whole lot of other things, too]

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu> writes:

> On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 06:52, iain wrote:
> > 
> > > > The rule of thumb is that none of these should require administrator
> > > > priviledges, and none of them should be "dangerous" or possible to get
> > > > wrong. 
> > 
> > In the list above, both language and mouse can be both dangerous and
> > possible to get wrong.
> 
> Language is tricky but we can decrease the danger. You're right, that it
> will be possible to get language "wrong". As I said, its a rule of
> thumb, not a law ;-) When you change the language using instant apply,
> all the text in the system will change to the new language. We can leave
> an "Undo" button in the previous language though. So if you accidentally
> change to a bizarre language, the "Get me out of this thing" button will
> still be in the last language you were in, hopefully one you speak :)

We aren't going to have instant apply (or apply without logging
out and logging in back in) for language any time in the forseeable
future.

So, not worth worrying about,
                                        Owen