Description of problem: The clock applet shows a calendar that puts Sunday at the right instead of at the left, and the Preferences dialog gives no way to change this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-panel-2.6.0-9 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add the clock applet to the panel. 2. Click on the applet to have it show a calendar. 3. Open the Preferences dialog through the applet's context menu. Additional info: I recently upgraded my FC1 system to FC2, and I use it in the fr_CA locale.
Moving to gtk+, but the week start has been localized to be Monday in the fr locale, so this is expected behaviour
Calendars in Québec almost always start the week on Sunday. Perhaps the bug should be retitled "gtk+ assumes that languages and week starts are correlated". Anyway, I hope this situation will be seen as a bug and that week starts will be made explicitly configurable through the Preferences dialog.
Well, its not exactly gtk which makes this assumption. Thats part of the posix locale model.
No, we will not make this explicitly configurable again after changing to the current mechanism of deriving calendar information from the locale. The correct fix for this would be to change the translation of calendar:week_start:0 to calendar:week_start:0 for the fr_CA locale. However, it appears that there are no special translations for fr_CA.