Dear Till, I am very impressed at your scholarship in this matter, and agree with your assessment of the paper-type bug right up to the following statement:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Till Kamppeter wrote: > In addition, there should be a GUI tool added where the locale settings > can be easily changed, so that if a user goes to another country > temporarily with his laptop that he can quickly adapt settings to that > country. > Last year Kevin Cole, Nick Wheeler and I (et al.) wrote a command line tool, which thanks to Kevin Cole ended up in Python, called GIN (Gnome Instant Nationalization). The good news is that this code could be a prototype for what you are talking about. The bad news is that Locale is a very complicated matter in Gnome. Please refer to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gin Basically, be very careful! Regards, Flint /************************************ Paul Flint Barre Open Systems Institute 17 Averill Street Barre, VT 05641 http://www.bosivt.org http://www.flint.com/home skype: flintinfotech Work: (202) 537-0480 Fax: (703) 852-7089 Free advice .~. is worth /V\ exactly what /( )\ you pay for it. ^^-^^ -- Printer installation paper type does not follow locale https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
