On 2009/01/27 23:28 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
It is therefore the obvious choice to have A4 as the default and if American users - who are in the minority - want Letter then they should alter the default setting.
The obvious choice is for the installation process to, upon the user's selection of a TZ city as a locale, globally set the time format, date formats, first day of week, paper size and measure system most often appropriate for the city selected. It's not exactly doing that now. For several years of always selecting America New York, I've noticed a glaring inconsistency. My best recollection, as I've not done a fresh install for several weeks, is that normal users get different defaults from a root X login, at least in KDE3. normal root preference time AM/PM HHMMSS HHMMSS date-l dmyyyy ditto ditto date-s mmddyy yyyymmddyyyymmdd first sunday monday sunday paper letter A4 letter measure imperia metric metric -- "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." Proverbs 22:6 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org