No GUI option to change week-starting day
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
There is no easily accessible way for a user to change the which day of the week the calendar starts on. This is a problem in all GNOME and Unity versions of Ubuntu.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Thu Oct 20 11:41:52 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-control-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_
deja-dup 20.0-0ubuntu3
gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
indicator-datetime 0.3.0-0ubuntu3
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
summary: |
- No GUI option to week-starting day + No GUI option to change week-starting day |
Thanks for your effort to help improve Ubuntu by pointing at this aspect of user preferences!
Indeed there is a suitable GUI for the purpose, namely the "Regional Formats" tab in Language Support. If you for instance prefer the US conventions for dates and times (weeks begin on Sunday), you pick the en_US locale, etc.
Actually I would argue against adding such a control to the Time & Date settings module. Language Support's "Regional Formats" tab - and its successor in Precise - is there for a reason, and when a user selects a region for controlling this kind of settings, s/he can be assumed to expect that the choice is effective all over the desktop. In other words, typically I don't think that app specific UIs that override the user's choice in Language Support is a good idea. Btw, the existing control for setting 12-hour or 24-hour time is superfluous IMO.
How about dealing with this bug report by simply adding a link from the Time & Date module to the central desktop tool for regional formats settings?