On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 16:52 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 21/04/12 12:55, Ed Greshko wrote: > [cut] > > > > Well, I check GNOME and I found that if you click on your name in the upper right and > > choose System Settings you can choose "Region and Language" and change the layout. > > Picking United Kingdom (English) results in picking Metric. > > Exactly the problem! I'm not French and I want English measurements to > be the default for United Kingdom locale settings. I imagine there might be some kind of controversy over which should be the default for the U.K., given its schizophrenic approach to the use of weights and measures. I guess GNOME (or whoever actually sets those defaults) went with metric because the metric system is more or less given precedence in most current legislation. I suppose someone could hack up a special measurements locale for the U.K. where short distances are measured in centimetres but long ones in miles, golf courses are measured in yards but athletic events in metres, soft drinks measured in litres but alcoholic ones in pints, temperatures in celsius or farenheit depending on the age of the user (could be detected via webcam, perhaps?), and so on, but it seems like rather a lot of work...;) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
