[OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Gnome and the future

[James Carlson]

On 11/04/12 09:06, Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> This is useless because you still do not have newlocale(), duplocale()
> or uselocale() which create or use the locale_t object.

Those can be dummied out as well.

> The point of the new apis is that you can have an unlimited number of
> locale_t objects, all with different properties. As side effect
> different threads can use different locale_t objects, giving threads
> the ability to run in different locales. But this feature is NOT
> limited to per-thread locales as some people may think.

I think the underlying point that the previous poster was making was
that for a significant number of users, the desktop environment is
launched with the per-process locale set correctly, and the user happily
spends all of his time in that single locale.  Being able to switch
locales on a thread-by-thread basis is certainly nifty, and is perhaps
useful in some service providing scenarios (e.g., a web server), but
it's quite unclear at least to me how it'd be very much helpful to build
a window manager.  Perhaps there are multi-lingual people who really do
need to have a window manager that can decorate each window differently
... but really?

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