From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see description 2. 3. Actual Results: see description Expected Results: see description Additional info:
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.