Bug#253235: kcontrol: kcmlocale should take LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER values from system default
Package: kcontrol
Version: 4:3.2.2-1
Severity: normal
My default system locale is en_US. In the kcmlocale module of
kcontrol, when I press the "defaults" button, most of the settings
take on the values that are defined in /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US,
but the paper size and measurement system remain at "a4" and "metric",
despite the fact that /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US defines LC_PAPER
and LC_MEASUREMENT to "letter" and "imperial" (actually I only assume
the value of LC_MEASUREMENT set there means "imperial" -- I cannot
locate any documentation for what the value really means).
Also (and this may be a documentation problem with a wider scope) I
could not find any documentation on what is the significance of
setting a value in kcmlocale -- does it override system locale
definitions for all programs, or just KDE-aware programs, or what?
E.g., with default KDE settings where my paper size is reported to be
a4, but system locale has US letter, which applications are going to
use the one value and which the other?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-beth.4
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages kcontrol depends on:
ii kdebase-data 4:3.2.2-1 KDE Base (shared data)
ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.2-2 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libasound2 1.0.4-1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
ii libaudio2 1.6c-4 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-9 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-6 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libraw1394-5 0.10.1-1 library for direct access to IEEE
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Session Management
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-3 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System event recording an
ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
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