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dmedvinsky / gsimplecal

Simple and lightweight GTK calendar (BSD license)
http://dmedvinsky.github.io/gsimplecal
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Configurable Start-Day of the Week #44

Closed JBHoren closed 3 years ago

JBHoren commented 3 years ago

If I was still back home, it would be nice that the weeks began on Sunday; but I'm not there... I'm here, in the US, where the week begins on Monday. So, would it be too much trouble to make the Start-Day of the Week user-configurable?

dmedvinsky commented 3 years ago

It is user-configurable already. It's even documented in the manpage. You change the first day of the week by changing your system locale. Because first day of the week, as you have noticed, depends on your locality. If you don't want to change your locale system-wide, there is a config option in gsimplecal named force_lang. It will only apply to gsimplecal process, thus changing the first day of the week for gsimplecal without affecting your system locale.

Please refer to manpage for more info if required.

JBHoren commented 3 years ago

As a former technical writer, I did RTFM. But what? I needed to use force_lang=en_GB.UTF8 for a week that begins on Monday, but did not have that locale installed, so adding the line to the config file did nothing. Fixed that. Thanks!

dmedvinsky commented 3 years ago

Yeah, the manpage mentions that the option must take a value that's one of the locale -a output. I guess the author (me, probably) assumed the knowledge of what that is and how that works.

If you can suggest a concise description to clear that incompleteness, I'd gladly amend the doc.

JBHoren commented 3 years ago

Yes, forcibly setting LANG=en_GB.UTF8in the config file works. My objection was that I'm a US English snob; but what I found really objectionable was that the en_US locale has the week starting on Sunday! In the end, I chose to go with a more granular solution, in the form of exec:LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF8 gsimplecal in my window manager (JWM) panel. Works fine. Sorry for the inconvenience. It's a wonderful program, and I appreciate your sharing it with us.