Dapper clock and locales

[Keith Powell]

Julio Biason wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:25 +0100, Keith Powell wrote:
>   
>> So, as Dapper is on my "experimenting" hard drive, I reinstalled it 
>> using English-United States as the installation language, rather than 
>> English-United Kingdom. The clock was now using the 12Hour system and 
>> 12Hour was an item in the clock's preferences menu. I changed the 
>> Time Zone to London and altered the clock to read "our time". It 
>> still showed 12Hour. However, I found that the keyboard was set up as 
>> an American one rather than a British one. Changed the keyboard 
>> layout in the System -> Administration menu, but it didn't change - 
>> the keyboard stayed American.
>>     
>
> The keyboard settings affect only the selected application, not the
> whole setup (and this happens on Windows too). There is a small checkbox
> where you can point that the keyboard layout changes affect all
> applications. That should probably solve your problem.
>
> Also, the "Keyboard indicator" applet would show which layout is
> selected for the current window.
>
>   

In KDE, selecting Configure - Keyboard,  uses that keyboard layout for 
everything. I thought it would be the same in Gnome. I will investigate 
the keyboard applet. Thanks for telling me about it.

>> Please, developers, give us our 12 hour clock back.  :-(
>>     
>
> Why don't just right click the clock and select "Preferences"?
>
>   
That's the problem, Julio. There is *no* 12 hour option in the clock's 
"Preferences" menu, when Dapper is installed using the English - United 
Kingdom language. Only 24 hour, UNIX time and Internet.

Cheers

Keith