On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:54 AM, todd rme <toddrme2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Mark <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:09 PM, John Layt <j...@layt.net> wrote: > >> > >> On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 01:15:03 Mark wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Disclaimer: This is just an idea. I don't have plans to make this and > i > >> > sadly lack the time to even implement it. However, someone might be > >> > interested to mentor this and someone else might be interested to do > >> > this > >> > as a GSoC project. Provided that something alike isn't already > existing. > >> > I > >> > didn't do a lot of searching prior of making this mail. > >> > >> Hi Mark, > >> > >> I'm one of the maintainers of the KHolidays library which provides the > >> holiday > >> events throughout KDE, and sometimes contributor to the plasma > >> clock/calendar. > >> > >> You can find some information about KHolidays at > >> http://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/KHolidays , in particular some details > >> about > >> plans for a new version of the file format and library that should be > more > >> flexible and portable and easier to contribute to. Ideally the data > files > >> would be a cross-desktop effort. > >> > >> You can also find some more details in the slides for a talk I gave at > the > >> last Desktop Summit. Sadly no video survived :-) See > >> > https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/sessions/defining-common-standards- > >> calendar-systems-and-holidays > >> > >> It could be an interesting GSoC project to try implement the new file > >> format > >> and library, but I'm not sure I can mentor it, I tried last year and > made > >> a > >> hash of it, and I'm unlikely to have enough time this year either. > >> > >> It does sound like there are some problems with your config, Holidays in > >> the > >> Plasma Clock do seem to work correctly for most people now. Perhaps > find > >> and > >> delete the config file for the clock? Or try it in a new user to see if > >> it is > >> broken there? > >> > > > > Well, i found that one. My system was set at en_us for the locale. I > > switched it to dutch. That works fine for the calendar. > > However, now some applications are displayed in dutch as well and that's > not > > what i wanted. I somehow want to let my system know i'm in > the Netherlands, > > but want to have the english language. > > Locale -> country, region, and language -> Preferred languages, and > move English to the top of the list. You should probably look at all > the options in that module, there is a lot you can configure. > > -Todd > Thank you for that, that will certainly help for KDE :) Is there some kind of a system wide (non kde specific) setting for that as well?