[Bug 306591] Re: Locale settings in shell initialization not used by GNOME session

[Andrew Conkling]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 13:46, Jonathan Marsden
<jmarsden at fastmail.fm>wrote:

> Set a language at the gdm screen, and when prompted, tell it to make
> this new language/locale the default for your user, and it adds
> information to that effect to your ~/.dmrc  Then, next time that user
> logs in, they get that chosen language/locale.  Such a user will find
> that their shell locale is correct, too, when they open up a terminal
> window.  Job done.  User does not need to care where the info is stored
> or how it works.  User never edits a ~/.anything file!  It just works.


Right, the problem is when you want to "mix and match" locales. In my
situation, I simply want to change my time to 24-hour and my "first weekday"
to Monday, but retain everything else in en_US. Since GNOME does not offer
any way to do this, shell environment variables are the only way I know how
to do this.

Do you really truly need more that this?  Is there really a bug here?
> If so, what exactly is the bug?


That I cannot customize my locale settings within a language (specifically
changing the time mode and first weekday, but I could not change any other
setting either).


> If you have a question (as opposed to a bug), then you could try using
> LaunchPad "Answers" to ask it, and see if you get a solid answer to it
> there.  It might be good to phrase the question in terms of the user
> requirement "how do I achieve result X", rather than in terms of the
> method "how do I get GNOME to read locale settings from shell
> initialization file Y", for best results.


I'm inclined to think there's a bug (as I mentioned above) mainly because no
one seems to know how to do this in GNOME. Missing/undiscoverable
functionality is still a bug.

But fair enough; I should exhaust all resources:
https://answers.launchpad.net/gnome-common/+question/60699

Interestingly, I found this question, which doesn't really shed any light at
all: https://answers.launchpad.net/gnome-common/+question/6311

If no further information comes to light in the next 48 hours, I will report
this upstream and work with other GNOME BugSquad members to triage it.

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