Le Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:31:13 +0100, John Keller a �crit : > Frederic Crozat wrote: >> I would like to keep this new (but correct) behaviour but unfortunately, a >> lot of people will see it as "broken", because : >> <newbie_mode>under GNOME,I typed '.' key and I got ',' on the screen. >> Under KDE, xterm, whatever, I don't have this problem.. GNOME is >> bugged<newbie_mode> >> >> Just look at the bug report.. I think I'll completely back out the >> behaviour or I'll disable it for some locales (but I'm afraid to forget >> some..) > > Yes, I agree with that from a pragmatic view. Perhaps you should consider a > patch in the code to override all locales? Of course, people who install > GNOME from Red Carpet or other sources may then see the behavior come back > and wonder why.
Patching GTK+ to revert his behaviour is probably the safest choice ATM.. > This might be something, long-term, to consider as a switch in the registry > thing (can't remember its name). Or is it too low-level for the XML registry > to have an effect? Because if it were implemented as a switch, MDK could > turn off localized decmals by default and still have it be consistent across > installs (from MDK or from other sources). Plus, users could turn it back on > again. I'd never have noticed, because I use MDK on a portable... :) You're talking about GConf but GConf is for GNOME2 and here, we are talking about GTK2 which is very low level, compared to GNOME.. Moreover, doing a preference is "bad" here, because it should "just work".. > >> > Besides, it'd be ironic for a French-driven disto to chnage the correct >> > behavior in the French locale only. ;) >> >> I would prefer to patch French maths to use '.' instead of ',' :)) > > So would I, but I'm biased. I wonder if it was a Napoleon thing, with the > Ecole des mines or something. -- Fr�d�ric Crozat MandrakeSoft
