[Bug 281336] Please give an option in KMail to default the language settings to the system default, with an override per-identity

[Myrosia]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281336


Myrosia <myrosia at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Myrosia <myrosia gmail com>  2011-09-05 16:09:36 ---
The reason the "select a different dictionary" is not enough is that there are
something like 22 different varieties of English to choose from, with the most
common (US and UK) at the very bottom of the list. Also a great many varieties
of Spanish, French and German. This makes choosing the right variety through
the menu error prone and distracting.

Plus, I wasted half an hour trying to figure out the answer to the question "I
changed my locale, OpenOffice and other software use the new locale correctly, 
why does Kmail still use the wrong dictionary?" The right menu items were
hidden under tabs and not at all obvious, and not consistent with the normal
expectation based on how other software behaves. That is the biggest problem
there - the time it takes to figure out why the unexpected behavior is
happening.

It's the time spent on figuring out why the system does not

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