Re: [Xournal-devel] Locale-dependent config file

2016-09-13 Thread Denis Auroux
On 09/13/2016 12:40 PM, Immi Halupczok wrote: > I guess the different-xournal-versions-using-same-config-file is the > strongest argument I have (unless one also counts "I'm horrified of > 1,5", which probably is my real motivation ;-) ). If you think that > argument is not strong enough, then let'

Re: [Xournal-devel] Locale-dependent config file

2016-09-13 Thread dmg
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Immi Halupczok wrote: > > (Of course, now it's done: there are different xournal versions with > incompatible config files; however, one could reduce the impact if newer > xournal versions are compatible to old ones again.) ​At least that is in the config :) Co

Re: [Xournal-devel] Locale-dependent config file

2016-09-13 Thread Immi Halupczok
Am 13.09.2016 um 17:32 schrieb Denis Auroux: > Hi Immi, > > Yes, this is hideous, I agree. The issue at this point is backwards > compatibility -- existing xournal users have .config files with > locale-dependent numeric data in it and we'd like to be able to read > them even if they upgrade to a

Re: [Xournal-devel] Locale-dependent config file

2016-09-13 Thread Denis Auroux
Hi Immi, Yes, this is hideous, I agree. The issue at this point is backwards compatibility -- existing xournal users have .config files with locale-dependent numeric data in it and we'd like to be able to read them even if they upgrade to a future version that's better about storing data in th

[Xournal-devel] Locale-dependent config file

2016-09-13 Thread Immi Halupczok
Hi, I just noticed that the latest version of xournal (the master branch in github) stores values in the config file using the current locale, which means writing "1,5" instead of "1.5" on a German system. I saw that this behaviour has been intentionally introduced in "2b74a01... Fix issues wi