<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Eike Hein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hein@kde.org" target="_blank">hein@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow:hidden">the motivation in switching to Qt's locale<br>
system was mainly that the behavior and scope it im-<br>
plements aligns closely with the rest of desktop<br>
Linux</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>There is an old saying: "The path to hell is paved with good intentions..."</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">People can wax poetic about the reasons but that doesn't change the fact that the functionality<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">is gone; people have noticed and aren't at all pleased. Telling an end user that they have lost functionality</div><div class="gmail_extra">but hey "the behavior and scope..." isn't going to fly. Their eyes will glaze over and they'll say WTF?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If Plasma5 gets into a major distribution (such as Fedora) without this being fixed you ain't heard nothing yet.</div><div class="gmail_extra">Queue the GNOME comparisons, etc. etc.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Luckily it appears the KDE team recognizes this is a bit of a foobar and is working to correct. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>