On Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:58:19 BST Peter Lewis wrote: > I run openSuse Leap and concur that the regional settings are difficult. I think they are wrong. Why would anyone choose a country rather than Imperial or Metric. I thik something has gone wrong. > My main beef is that the spell checker will not use en_gb if the USA > dictionary is loaded. I have to unload the USA dictionary before I can realise > the GB English spelling (rather than having to realize the US). Yes, I would have thought that if a country is selected in the Region, everything regional related should really be used its default. > systemsettings5/Regional Setting/Formats/Detailed Settings only gives me > options of countries rather than metric, imperial, ISO or any basic systems. > > Peter > > On Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:17:53 BST Ianseeks wrote: > > Hi > > > > 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 ? > > > > thanks > > > > regards > > > > Ian > > > > ps i have logged a bug for the above > > > > -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20181012 Qt: 5.11.2 KDE Frameworks: 5.50.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.14.0 - kwin 5.14.0 kmail2 5.9.1 - akonadiserver 5.9.1 - Kernel: 4.18.12-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.15