This bug also causes me problems with machines I support. The default
should *always* be the system-wide settings that Ubuntu honour, and at
the very least it should not reset during an 'upgrade'. This 'reset to
US paper size' arrogance is a major irritation and causes problems for
users who print and get nothing but an error message telling them to
change paper size while blocking the network printers job queue until
somebody clears it.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
Installed: 14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
Candidate: 14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
Version table:
*** 14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 14.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
Candidate: 14.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
Version table:
*** 14.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627648
Title:
firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize
Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Binary package hint: thunderbird
Often after upgrading or installing ubuntu (now running 10.04.1) I
notice (after a while, since I don't print that often from
browser/e-mail client) that the papersize is set to US Letter again.
I'm not quite sure why this happen, because I live in the Netherlands,
there's no US Letter here, ever (unless you get some special paper
sent in ;-)
Obviously in a longer running system, this is set in my system to A4
paper (systemsettings/locale/other/paper format). however, I found
that in /etc/papersize it said "letter". So I guess there are more
places to configure this. (I promptly changed that using "sudo
paperconfig -p a4", so perhaps this problem is over now...
Perhaps this bug needs to be moved to systemconfiguration/locale with
a summary: "systemsettings papersize configuration doesn't cover all
places where papersize is configured" or something...
Cheers
Simon
PS, why is there no option to report a bug from http://bugs.launchpad.net, I
had to go through the ubuntu-bug tool to get here...
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: thunderbird 3.0.6+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 31 22:02:22 2010
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
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