kalarm - week starting day

[Erik P. Olsen]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:09:42 -0500
> David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> KDE has always defaulted to 'first day to the week is Monday' in any
>> distribution that I have seen. So this is *not* a Fedora problem but a
>> KDE default. You should question there. KDE.
> 
> kalarm defaults to Monday.
> 
> kdebase defaults to Sunday.
> 
> The problem is that those are different.  I would have expected them both to
> default to Sunday, or both default to Monday.  The behaviour changes depending
> on whether kdebase is installed or not -- kalarm on its own defaults to Monday
> but that magically changes to Sunday as soon as kdebase is installed.
> 
I suspect that kalarm in the absence of kcontrol uses a hardcoded default. In my 
country, Denmark, the week starts on Mondays so that could be the explanation if 
the programmer comes from such a country. Apparently kcontrol looks at the 
locale and sets the week starting day accordingly which kalarm in turn respects.

This looks more like a documentation bug and bad coding habit.

-- 
Erik.