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gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #878767
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 878767

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote : Re: No GUI option to 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?