What This Panel Does Not Do

Documentation / Contents - Location and Time

• Overview of Location and Time
  • What It Changes, and What It Does Not
  • The Window
  • The Buttons
• The Time and Location Tab
  • Choosing a Timezone
    • Follow system timezone
    • 12-hour clock (AM/PM)
  • Location
• The Language and Formats Tab
  • Locale (LANG)
  • Language
  • Currency
  • The Sample Line
• The Environment Tab
  • Session Exports
  • The Preview
  • The Shell Startup File
    • Which File Is Detected
    • How the Write Behaves
• Files and Settings
  • The Configuration File
  • The Keys
  • Environment Variables Read
• Command Line and Keys
  • Command Line
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
• What This Panel Does Not Do
  • Out of Scope by Design
  • Not Built
  • Known Rough Edges
• Fonts, Colours, and the Rest

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• Copyright Information

What This Panel Does Not Do

This page exists so you do not go looking for controls that are not here. Some of these are out of scope on purpose; some are simply not built yet.

Out of Scope by Design

• Fonts. Typefaces are a desktop-wide setting, not a per-application or per-locale one. They live in a font scheme and are edited in the Font Scheme panel. See Fonts, Colours, and the Rest.
• Keyboard layout. Physical keyboard localization is not this panel's job.
• Developer environment. CC, PATH and the rest are yours to set.
• The system locale and the system timezone files. This panel is user scoped and never writes outside your home directory.

Not Built

• Number formats. The 1,234.56 on the sample line is a fixed example and is not reformatted for your locale.
• Date formats. There is no short or long date choice and no date order.
• Currency symbol or its placement. Only the three-letter code is recorded.
• First day of the week.
• Paper size.
• Measurement units.
• The LC_ category breakdown. There is one LC_ALL toggle and no LC_TIME, LC_NUMERIC or LC_MONETARY of their own.
• A list of installed locales. The Locale field is free text; nothing runs locale -a for you.
• C shell syntax for the exported block. The block is written with export, which a csh or tcsh startup file cannot use.

Known Rough Edges

• Export LC_ALL has no value field, so turning it on alone changes nothing. See Files and Settings.
• "Follow system timezone (informational)" is recorded and acted on by nothing.
• The sample clock uses the timezone the panel was started in, not the one selected in the list.
• "Write shell block..." and "Remove block..." carry three dots but open no dialog. They act immediately.
• Close exits without saving and without asking.
• Editing "Display name (city / region):" does not refresh the previews until you touch another control.
• Nothing else in Blueprint reads this configuration file yet. The settings are recorded and exported; no other panel consumes them today.

Also Missing

Buttons, toggles and tabs cannot be reached from the keyboard. See Command Line and Keys.