On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 01:51 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote: > � wrote: > > Jeff Spaleta wrote: > >> On Feb 12, 2008 9:20 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> On Feb 12, 2008 9:05 PM, Rodd Clarkson <rodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Wouldn't it be more correct for Fedora to default to the ISO standard > >>>> for paper (A4, etc) than to the US standard for paper (letter, etc)? > >>>> > >>> Fedora's default papersize setting... where? > >>> > >> > >> Take a close look at the file cupshelpers.py > >> > >> in system-config-printer > >> > >> Letter is selected by default only for a small number of specific > >> locales. What more do you want? Blood? > >> > >> If you are going to argue that we should make A4 the default, even for > >> en_US and en_CA... locations where printers can be assumed that Letter > >> sized paper is what is in the trays... you and I are going to have a > >> serious discussion about balancing usability against idealism. > >> > >> -jef"You want A4 to be the default for en_US, meet me on the steps of > >> the capital building in DC and spend a week championing the cause of > >> metric system adoption. You'll know who I am. I'll be the one holding > >> the medications with your name on the bottle"spaleta > >> > >> > > +1 Fedora should default to the ISO standard.. > > > > Best regards. > > Johann B. > > I suspect you might not have interpreted Jef's sarcasm quite right, because I > don't read him as +1 for changing anything there. Any choice of 'default' in > paper sizes would simply be wrong somewhere... the only reasonable thing Fedora > 'should' do is choose the most likely default based on locale. Maybe some more > work needs done on that (which is a configuration issue). As far as I'm aware, the installer asks where you live (with regard to time zones), but given you can select cities on a map, shouldn't this be enough? R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
