Unfortunately (1) moving some machines to 12.04 is not an acceptable option due to the vast differences in user interface, and (2) it is still not right (as far as I can tell) with 12.04 as a recently installed test system when set up for UK preferences with an OKI network printer set for A4, both Firefox and Thunderbird still default to US Letter paper size. Even more irritating is the behaviour when each upgrade of Firefox or Thunderbird, often for security reasons and not choice, changes the settings back - that is fundamentally broken behaviour and is the sort of old MS arrogance of "we don't care what you configured, we know best" by resetting user's preferences for no good reason. I don't know (yet) if they break this on upgrades for 12.04 as we have not really used/checked this on the test system. Since 10.04 is supposed to be LTS and this bug is old, it should be fixed for 10.04. Also I doubt it is an OS-side problem but must be an application problem, most certainly the arbitrary reset of previously configured preferences must be!
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627648 Title: firefox/thunderbird default to US Letter for papersize Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Unknown 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/627648/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
