[kubuntu-devel] Locale issue and some comments

[Jonathan Riddell]

I agree it's a bug and should be fixed so I've reopened the
report. Many people including myself have come across this issue which
is caused by additions we make to the locale kcontrol module to try to
get it to integrate with system locale.  Sorry for the dismissive
response and thanks for all your work for Kubuntu.

Jonathan


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 05:18:11PM +0300, Dimitris Kardarakos wrote:
>    Hi everyone and thanks for your work.
> 
>    A few days ago I opened the following KDE bug:
>    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335301
> 
>    As mentioned in the bug report, the issue is that setting country to
>    Greece and language to English in "System Settings" I end up with an
>    invalid ~/.kde/env$setlocale.sh script and, as a result, an invalid system
>    locale.
> 
>    KDE correctly commented that it is a Kubuntu issue, so I opened the
>    underneath:
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-runtime/+bug/1322968
> 
>    I would like to mention that I totally disagree with the response I got:
>    Won't Fix, "Invalid country language combinations lead to invalid
>    locales."
> 
>    From a user viewpoint, I consider Country=Greece and Language=English as a
>    valid configuration. And as mentioned in KDE bug "We set and manage
>    regional format settings and translation languages separately, allowing
>    combinations to be mixed and matched as the user wants", it seems that KDE
>    support such a setting.
> 
>    From a technical viewpoint, I think that users' invalid settings should
>    not lead to invalid configurations; if settings were invalid, users should
>    be prevented from selecting them (in most cases).
> 
>    From a moral viewpoint, which is main the reason I am sending this e-mail,
>    I consider the response as offensive. I have been using Kubuntu for the
>    last 4 years, I have translated Kubuntu documentation to Greek in
>    Userbase, I have tried to let my friends give Kubuntu a try, so, I
>    consider myself somehow as part of the Kubuntu community. The only reason
>    I have mentioned this is because I consider this issue as a major one for
>    a portion of Kubuntu users in Greece (either existing or potential users).