[SailfishDevel] Add locale support to jolla calendar

[Carsten Munk]

On 13/11/14 22:43, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> Well I solved it and now it's dependent on the locale (which by 
> default is not set on Jolla) so:
>
> 1. I am more then happy to submit my patches to Jolla, though you guys 
> claim 'closed source' every file I edited had a BSD license at the top.

rpm -qf /path/to/file

to check what package it is in, should make it easier to figure out if 
it's in the open MW/Core or closed source.

/Carsten
>
> 2. To actually make this work properly jolla one or all of the 
> following environment variables need to be present LC_TIME, LC_ALL, 
> LANG, by default LANG is present but for people like me who want 
> language A but locale B for dates etc. so some way to set LC_* or at 
> least LC_ALL would be cool.
> I tried adding to my .bashrc but that had no effect for launching from 
> the launcher, from CLI it helpend of course.
> I assume I need to add it somewhere in dconf but I'm not knowledgeable 
> enough about dconf for the moment...
>
> 3. The only issue I saw that may need a special exception is february 
> where adding an extra week before may look nicer, but this is an 
> aesthetics issue and as far as I can tell from the widget in gnome 
> they don't mind having 2 weeks of the next month showing...
>
> I tested it with locales: en_GB (monday), nl_NL (monday), he_IL 
> (sunday), ar_KW (saturday).
>
> Should I publish the patches here or is that considered unacceptable 
> behavior on this list?
> I will probably try to put everything up neatly on my github later... 
> (ie full files..)
>
> Regards,
> Eli
>
> 2014-11-13 19:13 GMT+02:00 E.S. Rosenberg 
> <es.rosenberg+sailfishos.org at gmail.com 
> <mailto:es.rosenberg+sailfishos.org at gmail.com>>:
>
>
>
>     2014-11-13 14:25 GMT+02:00 Pekka Vuorela <pekka.vuorela at jolla.com
>     <mailto:pekka.vuorela at jolla.com>>:
>
>         to, 2014-11-13 kello 02:25 +0200, E.S. Rosenberg kirjoitti:
>         > Hi all,
>         >
>         > I'm trying to add support for locale (or at least
>         firstDayOfWeek) to
>         > jolla-calendar, in the MonthPage.qml file I successfully
>         made the day
>         > labels depend on the locale, but to actually shift all the
>         dates over
>         > seems to be more of an issue.
>         >
>         >
>         > As far as I can tell this should involve the AgendaModel
>         (found in
>         > nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-calendar), but I may be wrong.
>         >
>         >
>         > Either way I have 2 questions:
>         >
>         > 1. Am I on the right track?
>
>         AgendaModel returns events between start and end dates. It
>         does not care
>         about localization details or where a week starts from.
>
>         > 2. Assuming I pull this off successfully what is the process for
>         > submitting the patch? A pull request on git? sending a patch
>         to this
>         > list?
>
>         For changes in nemo-qml-plugin-calendar, a pull request in github.
>         Jolla-calendar itself is not open so we don't take patches.
>         However,
>         there are some patches around people have been applying
>         themselves.
>
>     Well it would be cool of Jolla released the source of
>     jolla-calendar so we can fix these things, it seems the calendar
>     is anyhow not getting that much attention...
>
>
>         Support for sunday as first day of week should go to
>         DatePicker&...Dialog. To be done at some point.
>
>     Is this defined in compiled code or in QML... I'll happily fix it
>     and donate the code :)
>     At the moment I for the life of me can't figure out where it is
>     getting the actual start and end dates of the displayed calendar
>     days...
>
>         Not much votes yet on these, though:
>         https://together.jolla.com/question/26507/ability-to-set-firstdayofweek-in-jolla-calendar/
>
>
>     I can't vote on my own questions... :D
>     If jolla intends to come to Israel at some point this needs to be
>     fixed though...
>     Thanks,
>     Eli
>
>         https://together.jolla.com/question/35138/can-i-change-the-first-day-of-week-in-calendar/
>
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