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Bug#273822: Selection of locale should be visible inside OOo Package: openoffice.org



Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.2-4
Severity: minor


Hello!

OOo selects its locale according to the LANG environment variable. In my
opinion this is a comfortable function for many users and may be even
more helpful for novice users. I think so because I admit it will choose
the right language in most cases.


What I don't like: This mechanism is not shown inside OOo. IMHO the
chosen environment and the fact it cannot be changed from within OOo
should be shown somehow in the dialog window 
"Tools/Options/Language Settings/Languages".

IMHO this is a major drawback. It took me and probably others some time
to find out why setting the locale inside OOo does not work. A novice
user might not manage to understand this automatic selection at all.

For my special case: I do work with an english system in general, but
need a german OOo. As I want be able to start it from shell, several
menu entries and via doubleclick on document files it is some work to
override the locale setting in all this places.



My feature request has two parts:

1)

At least the select box "locale setting" should be greyed out to indicate 
its setting is ignored. 

If it would show the selected locale, possibly with a prefix like "Chosen from
environment:" or something more elegant, it would be even better.

In my view this could be considered a known, but real bug currently. Trying 
to be modest I chose severity minor.


2) 

IMHO the following idea would combine the best of both worlds and
make everyone happy:

The dialog "Tools/Options/Language Settings/Languages" should work like
expected and like it works upstream, but have an additional option
"Same as environment". New Debian installations could use that setting
as a default.

This part is clearly a whishlist bug.



Feedback appreciated and I hope I did not hit an FAQ here.



  Regards
    Florian Hinzmann



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (1001, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
pn  dictionaries-common | openoff            Not found.
ii  openoffice.org-bin            1.1.2-4    OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii  openoffice.org-debian-files   1.1.2-4+1  Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-de [openo 1.1.2-4    German language package for OpenOf
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.2-4    English (US) language package for 
ii  ttf-opensymbol                1.1.2-4    The OpenSymbol TrueType font

-- no debconf information


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  Florian Hinzmann                         private: f.hinzmann@hamburg.de
                                            Debian: fh@debian.org
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