startkde ignores global Country setting

[Christian Affolter]

/usr/bin/startkde ignores the Country setting outside the user's kdeglobals file (for example within /etc/kde4/kdeglobals) and sets them according to the system's locale. Specifying a default Country setting (which differs from the system's default locale) for all users on a system is therefore impossible.

For example, my system's locale is set to 'en_US.UTF-8' (for English messages), but I would like to have the KDE country set to 'ch' for Switzerland (for Swiss number, time, currency etc. settings) per default and not to 'us'.

Steps to reproduce:
Specify the country setting (here 'ch' for Switzerland) within a global kdeglobals file:
cat << EOF > /etc/kde4/kdeglobals
[Locale]
Country=ch
EOF
chmod 644 /etc/kde4/kdeglobals

Add a fresh user (which doesn't have a ~/.kde configuration directory already):
useradd -m test && passwd test

Login with the previously created user into KDE, and check the Country settings within Applications -> Settings -> System Settings -> Locale. The country will be set to "United States of America" instead of "Switzerland".

Environment:
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS amd64
Release: 12.04

kde-workspace-bin:
  Installed: 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.2
  Candidate: 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.2

Please find attached a tiny patch which fixes this issue by checking if the country was set within any of the available kdeglobals files instead of only looking it up within the one in the user's home directory.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

The manual country setting was removed entirely as the on-the-fly detection inside KLocale should now work as expected.