From kde-core-devel  Thu Sep 28 11:50:41 2000
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:50:41 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: locale setting in startkde
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=97014180217981

Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is a little patch that reads the country and locale information from the
> kdeglobals file and exports the LANG and LC_ALL env vars accordingly.
> 
> I only tested it with German, where it works well. Any comments? Would it be
> a good idea to add it to startkde?

I don't really like this. Not just that your patch is very bash centric
and doesn't
honour a non-set KDEHOME, it also simply greps for Language line_s_.
There could be more
than one and your patch doesn't care for the group.
Beside these technical problems I also don't really like that KDE sets
my LANG. While
I very much prefer a german GUI, I still don't like if make speaks
german. That's why
I still prefer that I can have KDE language settings and set my LANG in
.bashrc if I
prefer to have a german bash.

Greetings, Stephan

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