[kde-linux] Problem fully setting KDE locale from $LANG

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Murray Trainer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can set $LANG and $KDE_LANG to my particular language, eg. en_US.UTF-8
> and KDE appears in the required language but the dates are not in US
> format.  I have to hard code the Country and Language entries in my
> kdeglobals in my kiosk profile (see  below) to make it work correctly.
> If I try and use environment variables in kdeglobals they aren't
> evaluated.  Is there any way to make this work properly?

You could try shell expansion:
http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/Configuration_Files#Shell_Expansion

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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