GSoC idea: Country holiday service for calendar and calendar improvements

[Mark]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:54 AM, todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:09 PM, John Layt <john at layt.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 01:15:03 Mark wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Disclaimer: This is just an idea. I don't have plans to make this and
> i
> >> > sadly lack the time to even implement it. However, someone might be
> >> > interested to mentor this and someone else might be interested to do
> >> > this
> >> > as a GSoC project. Provided that something alike isn't already
> existing.
> >> > I
> >> > didn't do a lot of searching prior of making this mail.
> >>
> >> Hi Mark,
> >>
> >> I'm one of the maintainers of the KHolidays library which provides the
> >> holiday
> >> events throughout KDE, and sometimes contributor to the plasma
> >> clock/calendar.
> >>
> >> You can find some information about KHolidays at
> >> http://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/KHolidays , in particular some details
> >> about
> >> plans for a new version of the file format and library that should be
> more
> >> flexible and portable and easier to contribute to.  Ideally the data
> files
> >> would be a cross-desktop effort.
> >>
> >> You can also find some more details in the slides for a talk I gave at
> the
> >> last Desktop Summit.  Sadly no video survived :-) See
> >>
> https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/sessions/defining-common-standards-
> >> calendar-systems-and-holidays
> >>
> >> It could be an interesting GSoC project to try implement the new file
> >> format
> >> and library, but I'm not sure I can mentor it, I tried last year and
> made
> >> a
> >> hash of it, and I'm unlikely to have enough time this year either.
> >>
> >> It does sound like there are some problems with your config, Holidays in
> >> the
> >> Plasma Clock do seem to work correctly for most people now.  Perhaps
> find
> >> and
> >> delete the config file for the clock?  Or try it in a new user to see if
> >> it is
> >> broken there?
> >>
> >
> > Well, i found that one. My system was set at en_us for the locale. I
> > switched it to dutch. That works fine for the calendar.
> > However, now some applications are displayed in dutch as well and that's
> not
> > what i wanted. I somehow want to let my system know i'm in
> the Netherlands,
> > but want to have the english language.
>
> Locale -> country, region, and language -> Preferred languages, and
> move English to the top of the list.  You should probably look at all
> the options in that module, there is a lot you can configure.
>
> -Todd
>

Thank you for that, that will certainly help for KDE :)
Is there some kind of a system wide (non kde specific) setting for that as
well?
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