Bug 80936

Summary:	[RFE] application to set X session environment variables
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael Lee Yohe <michael>
Component:	gnome-desktop	Assignee:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
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Version:	8.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Michael Lee Yohe 2003-01-02 16:20:05 UTC

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Description of problem:
There needs to be a user-friendly application to set X session environment
variables so that they are properly passed to all child processes invoked by X
(be it the terminal or standard GUI applications).

This application would be particularly useful in setting LANG to en_US for those
who do not necessary need UTF8 capability.

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-02 17:43:38 UTC

Environment variables are inherently not user friendly.
(Changing between en_US and en_US.UTF-8 is also inherently not user friendly.)

Having a mouse-and-icons way to do something not user friendly doesn't 
magically make it user friendly. ;-)

For the specific task at hand, I believe the only user friendly solution is 
"Latin 1 must die", with "set stuff in your ~/.bash_profile" as the 
backup plan for people who are used to the old way.