Plasma5 loss of configurability?

Gerald B. Cox gbcox at bzb.us
Tue Mar 10 14:24:59 UTC 2015


The end user doesn't care about where the code is written.   They care
about the end result.   This is something that was possible in past KDE
releases and now it is gone.   Changing the locale is not acceptable
because that changes all settings.   That isn't an acceptable or workable
solution.
On Mar 10, 2015 11:14 AM, "Luigi Toscano" <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> wrote:

> On Tuesday 10 of March 2015 07:10:23 Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> > 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.
>
> No, because you can change potentially the locale (see the other email and
> the
> relevant comment in that blog post). The code and the UI to do it in an
> easy
> way is just missing because it was not written, no one is trying to remove
> features because they shouldn't be there. The point is that it should be
> fixed
> in some lower levels of the stack than the removed KLocale.
>
> Ciao
> --
> Luigi
>
>
>
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