Re: locales design and timezone (was: dpkg-reconfigure unable to change greeter locale)
On Sat, 27 Dec 2025, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 27 Dec 2025 at 12:31:57 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote:
> > David Wright (HE12025-12-24):
> > > It could indeed, which would mean lightdm's creators introduced a
> > > third selection to potentially contradict the other two.
> >
> > Not a “third” selection, a *stateful* selection. Stateful system state
> > is one of the worst fake-good ideas of computing.
>
> From the OP's description I got the impression the keyboard
> layout was configured rather than stateful. AIUI, stateful
> is where it remembers a /user's/ previous selection (like
> too often happens with printer queues). Here, I don't think
> the OP was able to make a selection as a user, but had to
> have write access to system directories.
(I am the OP) Exactly.
I follow this discussion with much interest. In particular I no longer see
« keyboard layout is a part of locale » being treated as a heresy.
Roger
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