Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 17:39 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 11:19 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On 9/17/07, Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I personally think that this is something that should not be exposed in the ui.
> > If power users really can't live without it, they can just set LC_TIME in the
> > environment.
> > 
> I don't think this is something for power users only. A lot of people
> might be learning a language and want their desktop in that language,
> while they still want their dates/times/separators in the locale of the
> country they live in. I've seen that a few times, even on Windows.
> 
> Or even users from a foreign country living, let's say in the US, might
> want their desktop in English but the other data in their original
> locale, since the US/English ones "are confusing" for them.

Having a currency, decimal separator or default paper size (does
anything actually still use that?) that's not the one corresponding to
the language could be very useful.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>