Hello- I've been a long-time KDE user, and I must say that Plasma 5 looks *great*. Everything looks very polished and I'm looking forward to using it on a stable Linux distribution.
In all of my usage of KDE, I've always greatly appreciated how customizable the locale settings are. I live in the United States and have various options set for American English. However, I have configured my system to use the far superior formats for time (24-hour), date (YYYY-MM-DD) and measurements (metric over the imperial units). The Locale settings in KDE 4 allow me to override these settings very easily. I've been testing out the live CDs available at http://files.kde.org/snapshots/ and I'm very concerned about the "Formats" module of the regional settings. The "Detailed Settings" overrides are essentially *unusable*, as shown in http://i.imgur.com/onT3zOr.png . (I took this screenshot from the ISO image named neon5-201408220837.iso.) When I try to override the time for a 24-hour format, I am forced to guess about a region of the world that uses this format instead of simply entering YYYY-MM-DD as before. Additionally, the list of locales is enormous, with very limited scrolling capability. I am forced to point my mouse cursor at the bottom arrow and wait as the list scrolls very slowly. The other detailed settings overrides behave in the same way. In particular, the "Measurement Units" option should probably simply show "metric/imperial". In my opinion, this is a very serious usability regression and would stop me from using Plasma 5. Are there any plans to change the behavior/appearance of this settings applet? I searched the bug tracker for anything related to this and only found https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337563 -- I'm hoping that Martin Klapetek means to say that the *digitial clock itself* won't have 12/24 hour options and that it should be set in the global locale settings. I fully appreciate and agree with this; I'm asserting that the locale settings module is barely usable to override the time or date formats. Thank you for your time and consideration, MMR... _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
