GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 250483
Country selection defaults to "United States", regardless of current locale
Last modified: 2005-11-15 02:22:21 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Minor Version: 1.4.5 Synopsis: Country selection defaults to "United States", regardless of current locale Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Contacts [was: Addressbook] Description: Description of Problem: When I add a new address, the country selection always defaults to "Vereinigte Staaten" (="United States"), which makes little sense here in Germany. It is annoying having to scroll through a _really_ long pulldown menu with almost 200 entries for _each_ new entry. Given that you can be expected to have most of your contacts in your country of residence, the easiest way to come to a reasonable preset is to parse the country part of the current locale. In that case, messing around with the long pulldown menu would be restricted to those contacts outside your native country. In all other cases you wouldn't have to to anything except for pressing Enter Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Start a new entry into address book 2. Click on "Address" 3. Look what is preselected unter country. Actual Results: As said above. My pals are always expected to reside in the US. Expected Results: The default county should be taken from the current locale. In my case de_DE.UTF-8 -> Germany. Or de_CH.UTF-8 > Switzerland. How often does this happen? Fully reproducible. Additional Information: 'nuff said. Unknown reporter: j.rohr@comlink.apc.org, changed to bugbuddy-import@ximian.com. Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Perhaps it'd be better to make the country tweakable in the preferences, as sometimes the locale that's set doesn't correspond exactly to the country of residence.
Reassigning this to UI team.
marking bug 215093 as a dup because it is about the position of the zip/postal code towards the city.
*** bug 215093 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** bug 238319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** bug 202132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** bug 230947 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** bug 202133 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
please also take a look at 2133, it's about the free-form entry field for addresses and evolution supposing what is what...!
*** bug 226409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In 1.5+ country field is a free text entry instead of a selection, so this report is no longer valid.
The entry still defaults to "United States", regardless of my locale.
You must be using an old 1.5 snapshot (prior to contact editor re-design). There is NO default for country at all regardeless of locale using evolution1.5-1.5.8.0.200405241937-0.snap.ximian.8.1. Furthermore: Widget is no longer a dropdown, but simple text entry.