Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 14:05 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> Regarding the first "General" tab. Where do you plan to store that
> settings? In gdm user session configuration? Would it make sense to
> allow more detailed setup? For example, I know some people use Russian
> locale (for date/time/...) but still want to see all interface in
> English. How would we cater for that (if we would do it at all)?

I initially thought of mapping the Region and Language settings to the
user's language and locale. I myself like to have a German locale, but
an English interface; therefore, I set "Region" to Germany and
"Language" to English, done.

The type of storage is a good question. It should ideally be
system-wide, not just for system apps. Isn't there already a way of
storing a user's language and locale? If not, storing the information in
gconf and setting the correct environment variables in g-s-d might be a
feasible approach.

Cheers,
Denis