On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 13:53 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Rodd Clarkson <rodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I may use English US on my computer, but I measure using metric, and > > format my dates DD-MM-YYYY and my printer uses A4. Anaconda doesn't get > > any of the latter right, and that's just plain wrong. > > Here's a better question. Why are you using US English? Why aren't you > using another English locale? I prefer US english, and all I thought I was picking was a language. > I strongly believe that exposing locale customizations to the extent > necessary to make you happy in anaconda is a really dumb idea. This > sort of stuff is a PER USER configuration which is too complicated for > the installer to need to mess with. Yeah but in reality, most users have there own machines, and even on shared machines users would have similar settings so it's not a bad place to start. And there isn't anywhere else to get it right either without having to jump on the command line. Besides, assuming I live in the US because I picked that language (even thought later in the same install process I indicate that I live in Melbourne, Australia is even dumber. > We set a sane default in the installer based on the locale, and then > the installer gets the hell out of the way. if you want to make PER > USER customizations, then figure out a way to expose PER USER > customizations for the different locale based settings. > > -jef > -- "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
