On 9/25/2013 10:02 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Frédéric Perrin <f...@fperrin.net> writes: > >> Yes. OTOH, beyond the locale currency, we can't decide for the user what >> is meant by $ or £. Do you think this is too much trouble for something >> users won't bother to configure ? > Possibly, yes. > >> I guess we can decide to use $ for USD, £ for GBP and for the other >> currencies, invent some qualifier. CAD already has C$, but e.g. Brunei >> and Bahamain both have B$. How do we resolve this ambiguity ? > Maybe. Maybe not.. One possibility would be to have defaults in the > iso-4217-currencies and a flag (which the user can set) for whether to > display it. > >>> worse, GConf editing is really only simple on Linux, so you're leaving >>> out users of Mac and Windows. >> Editing GConf was only for development, if the idea is sound we'd >> hopefully also get a GUI editor (new tab in the Pref dialog ?). > While interesting, this would be a lot of effort! :) > But go ahead if this is your plan. > You could start with built-in defaults and let the user change them; > perhaps on a per-datafile setting? (That would indeed be easiest). Or > I guess it could go into the user's "global" settings. Hard to say > what's the Right Thing here. > > -derek > As another user I would suggest per data file. One user may want different settings in another file.
David C
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