GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 346238
let the user specify first day of week
Last modified: 2009-07-09 10:07:58 UTC
Please describe the problem: User can not specify first day of a week on Gnome's Clock applet. It is useful in many cases: when living on foreign countries for a while (think student exchange programs or jobs overseas), when user prefers other language than country he/she lives in (because they are either foreigners, for example, or because translation in their language is not good enough yet, or habit or anything else...) Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information: There are very many user cases where this feature is useful and every calendar-capable program I am aware of can do that - Evolution can, iCal, Outlook, Windows' default calendar can and even Google Calendar can do that. And last but not least - user is not left waiting for bug to be fixed if internalisation data happens to be wrong.
Isn't that already shared with evolution-data-server ?
I don't know about that, but in Evolution my weeks start on Mondays (customised, it was Sunday by default), but in panel weeks start on Sundays. (Ubuntu Dapper, but honestly it has been this way since I stared using Gnome, from 2.6 days)
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 317723 ***
I can't see how my bug report is a duplicate. It is NOT about "gtk calendar not calculating first week day correctly" (bug 317723 leads to 314473) it is about letting user specify himself the first day of the week, because there are many cases where this is necessary. It should be marked "wontfix" or opened again.
Sven: it's not possible to specify the first day of the week in a GtkCalendar anymore because GtkCalendar should automatically detect the correct first day. If the detected first day is wrong, this is an issue in your locale data and thus a bug in glibc.
A much as i know - locale data consists of language, calendar and numerical information, maybe even something more. Now, if i am wrong and locale data consist only calendaring tada, then indeed, user can choose a time zone, and this is great. But the entire point of my feature request is different - many users prefer using language that differs from their locale and therefore may differ from calendar. I quote my request: "It is useful in many cases: when living on foreign countries for a while (think student exchange programs or jobs overseas), when user prefers other language than country he/she lives in (because they are either foreigners, for example, or because translation in their language is not good enough yet, or habit or anything else...)"
Sven: then you can specify LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES with two different parameters.
ok, i see. thanks for being patient. but against what package should i file a RFE to let user change their locale data via GUI? Many things there are already configurable via GUI, like paper size and time zone. but not calendar format...
The real solution is http://live.gnome.org/LocaleProject Right now, there's no real other way to do this (I believe).
*** Bug 567570 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 588126 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***