Package: kcontrol Version: 4:3.2.2-1 Severity: normal My default system locale is en_US. In the kcmlocale module of kcontrol, when I press the "defaults" button, most of the settings take on the values that are defined in /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US, but the paper size and measurement system remain at "a4" and "metric", despite the fact that /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US defines LC_PAPER and LC_MEASUREMENT to "letter" and "imperial" (actually I only assume the value of LC_MEASUREMENT set there means "imperial" -- I cannot locate any documentation for what the value really means).
Also (and this may be a documentation problem with a wider scope) I could not find any documentation on what is the significance of setting a value in kcmlocale -- does it override system locale definitions for all programs, or just KDE-aware programs, or what? E.g., with default KDE settings where my paper size is reported to be a4, but system locale has US letter, which applications are going to use the one value and which the other? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-beth.4 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US Versions of packages kcontrol depends on: ii kdebase-data 4:3.2.2-1 KDE Base (shared data) ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.2-2 KDE core libraries ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libasound2 1.0.4-1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ii libaudio2 1.6c-4 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-9 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-6 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libraw1394-5 0.10.1-1 library for direct access to IEEE ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Session Management ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-3 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System event recording an ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information