Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 205078
Impossible to change default language.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:42 EST
1. Select Tools->Options->Language Setting->Languages 2. Change under "Default languages for documents" "Western" from "English(USA)" to "Danish" which BTW has the check mark before "Danish". 3. The check mark "For the current document only" is greyed out and cannot be removed, so this language setting will not be for all documents as intended. OpenOffice.org claims the bug is due to erroneous compilation because they cannot reproduce the bug. See <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=65129>
cloph always claims "erroneous compilation" and points to the upstream "one true rpms" for everything, despite the fact that they won't even *run* under selinux :-) In this case this language setting difference is deliberate, upstream rpms take the locale as the default language, but only on the very first start of OOo, subsequent changes to the locale don't affect OOO. Bt the fedora OOo always takes the locale as the default language on every start so as to be consistent with all the rest of our desktop applications. You can override it for the current document, but it sticks to the locale, the same as practically everything else in e.g. GNOME does. So to change the default language that documents will be written in, change the locale.
Not true. My locale setting *is* Danish and still OpenOffice sticks to English(USA). The problem comes from the fact that "For the current document only" cannot be unchecked. It is OK that the initial default language is the same as the locale setting but it should be up to the individual user to chose which language he/she wants as default for a given period. This "big brother" behaviour is typical for Microsoft and should not be adopted by the linux community.