GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 270578
Use Evolution's settings of week-start-day in clock applet
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:14:47 UTC
Taken from GNOME bugzilla 160982 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160982 To reproduce: Open the calendar drop down from the clock applet. Open evolution's calendar component in the day/week/work week/list view and look at start date in the small calendar to the upper right. The start date for the evolution calendar is configurable to any day of the week. The calendar portion of the clock applet does not use the same settings and seems to use the default settings from gtk+ See Screenshots: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=34711&action=view http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=34712&action=view From Vincent's Comment http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160982#c3 "GTK+ now automatically detects when the week should start. It's not configurable any more. I think evolution should detect it too and remove its setting. Maybe this should be moved to evolution?"
Its working for me on Novelll Linux Desktop, evolution version 2.0.2
retargetting from 2.3 to 2.5
I'm using Gnome evolution-2.4 2.4.2.1 in Debian Etch (testing). I tried locales America/Los_Angeles and US/Pacific, but the week still starts on Monday. Or could it be a bug in the locale? This may be a bug in GtkCalendar, because it does not respect the locale like it claims to. From /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-doc/gtk/GtkCalendar.html#GtkCalendarDisplayOptions --- enum GtkCalendarDisplayOptions typedef enum { ... GTK_CALENDAR_WEEK_START_MONDAY = 1 << 4 } GtkCalendarDisplayOptions; ... GTK_CALENDAR_WEEK_START_MONDAY Since GTK+ 2.4, this option is deprecated and ignored by GTK+. The information on which day the calendar week starts is derived from the locale.
*** Bug 310584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As stated in bug #310584, it would be better to use evolution settings for the week-starts-on in the clock applet, thus I'm moving this to gnome-panel.
*** Bug 537445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
To repeat the comment I made in bug 310584, it is a mistake to make the starting day of the week depend on the selected locale, as one could well want to choose a starting day that differs from the local convention. The selected language should have even less to do with the first-day-of-the-week issue. I might be in an English-speaking country, and have configured English as my computer's language, yet would want to be able to see the weeks starting with Monday, as the ISO standard says. (Since this is is the international standard, that should actually be the default, in my opinion.) There should be an easily-accessible switch somewhere for setting start-of-week separately from any other language or locale settings. This setting should be accessible at least from the status bar's calendar tool. For some reason, the task bar's calendar in Ubuntu 10.4 now displays Monday correctly as the first day of the week. I'm not sure whether this is because I'm now in Finland, and the Ubuntu distribution has changed this setting to be locale-dependent. But, as I mentioned above, it should _not_ be locale-dependent in any case.
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