Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.2-4 Severity: minor
Hello! OOo selects its locale according to the LANG environment variable. In my opinion this is a comfortable function for many users and may be even more helpful for novice users. I think so because I admit it will choose the right language in most cases. What I don't like: This mechanism is not shown inside OOo. IMHO the chosen environment and the fact it cannot be changed from within OOo should be shown somehow in the dialog window "Tools/Options/Language Settings/Languages". IMHO this is a major drawback. It took me and probably others some time to find out why setting the locale inside OOo does not work. A novice user might not manage to understand this automatic selection at all. For my special case: I do work with an english system in general, but need a german OOo. As I want be able to start it from shell, several menu entries and via doubleclick on document files it is some work to override the locale setting in all this places. My feature request has two parts: 1) At least the select box "locale setting" should be greyed out to indicate its setting is ignored. If it would show the selected locale, possibly with a prefix like "Chosen from environment:" or something more elegant, it would be even better. In my view this could be considered a known, but real bug currently. Trying to be modest I chose severity minor. 2) IMHO the following idea would combine the best of both worlds and make everyone happy: The dialog "Tools/Options/Language Settings/Languages" should work like expected and like it works upstream, but have an additional option "Same as environment". New Debian installations could use that setting as a default. This part is clearly a whishlist bug. Feedback appreciated and I hope I did not hit an FAQ here. Regards Florian Hinzmann -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (1001, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on: pn dictionaries-common | openoff Not found. ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.2-4 OpenOffice.org office suite binary ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.2-4+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic ii openoffice.org-l10n-de [openo 1.1.2-4 German language package for OpenOf ii openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.2-4 English (US) language package for ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.2-4 The OpenSymbol TrueType font -- no debconf information -- Florian Hinzmann private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key / ID: 1024D/B4071A65 Fingerprint : F9AB 00C1 3E3A 8125 DD3F DF1C DF79 A374 B407 1A65