Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

< Previous Next >
Re: [SLE] OOo 2_0 enters dates as MM/DD/YY violating global KDE and YaST settings
  • From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:32:37 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <200511290801.59535.samjnaa@xxxxxxxxx>
Monday 28 November 2005 19:01 samaye Carlos E. R. alekhiit:

> Because OOo reads the "locale" environment variables instead. Notice that
> there are more than one "desktop": there is gnome, there is fwmn... each
> one with its own settings.

Methinks OOo should be intelligent enough to detect the current environment
and take the settings from it.

> I think it is rather a kde issue. It would be interesting to know what the
> OOo developers think and why they did it that way: I'm sure they have
> thought about it a lot.

Filed an issue:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=58598

Please contribute.

Shriramana.

< Previous Next >