Clock applet doesn't allow me to choose Monday as the starting day of the week

[Toni Ruottu]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Clock applet version 2.16.1

1. (Live in Finland ;-)
2. Use Ubuntu in English
3. Click on the clock applet
4. Notice that weeks in the calendar start from Sunday
5. Notice that this cannot be changed from preferences
6. Feel confused
7. Make mistakes over and over again because the calendar does not seem intuitive to you, as it is different from every calendar you have ever used.

[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

Clock Applet version 2.16.2, confirmed.
I feel the same way (living in Hungary, using English-speaking Ubuntu).

[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

Upstream reports the above. However there should be an easy and intuitive way in Ubuntu to change it. I might write a specification about this later.

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There are three solutions:

 + you can change your locale setting for LC_TIME
 + you can open a bug against GTK+ to ask for this for the GtkCalendar widgets
(they might close it as WONTFIX, though)
 + you can wait for http://live.gnome.org/LocaleProject

Right now, there is really nothing we can do in the clock applet to fix this.
So I'm closing the bug, but feel free to open it again if GTK+ maintainers
agree that fixing GtkCalendar is the right way to do this.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

The specification are useful for work that needs to be planned over a cycle, not something to use for a simple feature request like that

[Toni Ruottu (toni-ruottu)]

So the bug was rejected. Now please, explain me why it is righteous that I suffer from my problem. Why do I deserve the pain?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

It has been denied as a gnome-panel bug, that would be a valid GTK feature request and that could be a problem with your local. That's only a small software problem, don't you think you are exagerating the problem the way you write about it?