Plasma5 loss of configurability?

Gerald B. Cox gbcox at bzb.us
Tue Mar 10 14:10:23 UTC 2015


If I  read that explanation correctly it basically says that you no longer
can override Locale settings.   You get what is defined by the locale.   If
that is correct it is indeed a loss of configurability and it is the GNOME
approach of restricting the options for the user.
On Mar 10, 2015 11:03 AM, "Luigi Toscano" <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> wrote:

> On Tuesday 10 of March 2015 06:55:04 Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> > Done.   Thanks for taking the time to report this to the list.   I'm not
> > using Plasma5 but display my date as Day Month Year.  Hopefully they'll
> fix
> > this in short order.   Configurability is one of KDE's strengths.   It
> > shouldn't be GNOMEified.
>
>
> Please note that his has nothing to do with GNOME or lack of
> configurability.
> Instead of using the custom KLocale, the needed functionalities are now in
> Qt
> and its QLocale class. So the system locale is used, instead of duplicating
> the pieces for locale change. See for example:
> http://vizzzion.org/blog/2014/05/locale-changes-in-plasma-next/
>
> Ciao
> --
> Luigi
>
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