Re: Bug#195481: fragmented location info: hassle for users especially mobile ones

2003-06-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2003-06-02 at 19:38, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I think that's the best solution. There are parts of the world with more > than one official language, and in some of those parts (such as Quebec, > or Belgium), guessing incorrectly may be a good way to severely piss > off a user. Additonally,

Re: Bug#195481: fragmented location info: hassle for users especially mobile ones

2003-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:33:12PM -0700, David Nusinow wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:16:50AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Uh, I'm not sure this is a good example. Hasn't shared/news/server > > existed for years? Both the newsreaders I maintain use it and have done > > so since at least May

Re: Bug#195481: fragmented location info: hassle for users especially mobile ones

2003-05-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 31 May 2003 02:16:50 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:56:13PM -0700, David Nusinow wrote: >> A few people were discussing the need for sharing of debconf >> templates on #debian-devel on freenode the other day/night. The >> example that came up at

Re: Bug#195481: fragmented location info: hassle for users especially mobile ones

2003-05-30 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:16:50AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Uh, I'm not sure this is a good example. Hasn't shared/news/server > existed for years? Both the newsreaders I maintain use it and have done > so since at least May 2000 and December 2001 respectively. That template > name was already

Re: Bug#195481: fragmented location info: hassle for users especially mobile ones

2003-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:56:13PM -0700, David Nusinow wrote: > A few people were discussing the need for sharing of debconf templates > on #debian-devel on freenode the other day/night. The example that came > up at the time was for newsreaders, and how 10 different newsreaders > shouldn't all as

Re: Bug#195481: fragmented location info: hassle for users especially mobile ones

2003-05-30 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:35:05PM -0600, Barak Pearlmutter wrote: > Right now, this stuff is easy to get inconsistent, and each one > requires effort to figure out. Some of them are even tricky to > change, or even to remember. > > It would be nice if these would *ALL* assume default values give