https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382764
Bug ID: 382764
Summary: Save and restore environment variables per application
Product: ksmserver
Version: 5.10.3
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: l.lu...@kde.org
Reporter: psychon...@nothingisreal.com
Target Milestone: ---
I sometimes launch applications using different language environment variables,
either because I prefer to use that application in a different language from my
global defaults, or because I am trying to work around KDE/Qt's lack of support
for custom date formats (see the much-hated Bug 340982). For example, I always
launch Thunderbird with LC_TIME=en_DK so that it shows me YYYY-MM-DD dates in
my message list.
Unfortunately, ksmserver doesn't seem to remember the language environment for
these applications when I save the session. (This problem occurs regardless
whether the application was launched from a desktop shortcut or from a shell
script that manually sets the environment variable(s).) For example, when I
log out of KDE and log back in again, Thunderbird gets restored, but it formats
the dates according to the system default locale rather than en_DK.
It would be useful if ksmserver could somehow recognize when applications are
launched with special environment variables, and re-set these variables when
restoring the session. I realize that this may be difficult or impossible to
do in the general case, but maybe it is possible at least for applications
launched via a standard desktop/menu shortcut.
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