Linux, LSB and Ubuntu need a system wide units setting (imperial/metric)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Bug Description
GNU/Linux, LSB and Ubuntu need a system wide units setting (imperial/metric)
As far as I can see there is no recorded system wide setting for prefered units. Several users of various applications have noted and complained that one or another application should guess their prefered units (for example by looking at their locale setting) #164760 (KDE-Admin), #171608 & #171277 (Inkscape),
Some applications (#37938 weather applet) try themselves to guess the correct units by looking at the locale setting. This is a rather innefective approach as it repeats unneeded work coding lookup tables of locales -> units, instead of simply reading a system variable. And others applications, such as OpenOffice, seem to just always default to imperial.
So, in summary: instead of each application setting units, Linux/GNU should provide a system wide setting.
(I have sent a message including this bug report to the lsb-discuss -- Linux Standard Base (LSB) discussion email list)
| Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote | #1 |
| Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote | #2 |
There is a blueprint about this: https:/