On Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:17:53 BST Ianseeks wrote:
> systemsettings5/Regional Setting/Languages
> I checked this setting and it was blank so i added Brit English. I'm not
> sure when this changed to blank as i always change everything regional
> related when the user is created or soon after if any regional issues
> occur.
>
> systemsettings5/Regional Setting/Formats
> I set "Region" to UK British English (en_gb). The "Detailed Settings" was
> disabled. I wanted to change the "measurement units" to metric so I enabled
> the "Detailed Settings". The "Measurement Units" changed from Imperial to
> Metric even though the entry said "no change". I then went to change the
> entry for "Measurement Units" and i was presented with drop the box of
> country options plus "no change" and "Default" - why is it not just
> "Metric" or "Imperial"?
>
> The only way i can get metric is to select "no change".
>
> The number format and time display format changed as well
>
> Something i don't understand is that all the places to change the
> configuration present a list of countries as the options as described
> above. Can anyone enlighten me ?
I don't know whether this might help but I got this output from
systemsettings5:
$ systemsettings5
QCoreApplication::arguments: Please instantiate the QApplication object first
WARNING: viewBackgroundColor is deprecated, use backgroundColor with colorSet: Theme.View instead
WARNING: viewBackgroundColor is deprecated, use backgroundColor with colorSet: Theme.View instead
KActivities: Database connection: "kactivities_db_resources_140259492624064_readonly"
query_only: QVariant(qlonglong, 1)
journal_mode: QVariant(QString, "wal")
wal_autocheckpoint: QVariant(qlonglong, 100)
synchronous: QVariant(qlonglong, 0)
Nothing to load - the client id is empty
Nothing to load - the client id is empty
org.kde.kcoreaddons: Error loading plugin "kcm_translations" "The shared library was not found."
Plugin search paths are ("/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins", "/usr/bin")
The environment variable QT_PLUGIN_PATH might be not correctly set
file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls.2/org.kde.desktop/ScrollView.qml:70: TypeError: Type error
KActivitiesStats( 0x5607de178860 ) ResultModelPrivate::onResultScoreUpdated result added: "kcm:kcm_translations.desktop" score: 1 last: 1539710576 first: 1537521953
KActivitiesStats( 0x5607de178860 ) ResultModelPrivate::onResultScoreUpdated result added: "kcm:formats.desktop" score: 1 last: 1539710590 first: 1537521978
Wrote script: "/home/prh/.config/plasma-locale-settings.sh"
"# Generated script, do not edit\n# Exports language-format specific env vars from startkde.\n# This script has been generated from kcmshell5 formats.\n# It will automatically be overwritten from there.\nexport LANG=en_GB.UTF-8\nexport LANGUAGE=en_GB\n"
Closing SQL connection: "kactivities_db_resources_140259492624064_readonly"
Somebody might get a clue from it.
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Regards,
Peter.
