Sure, I'll take this into consideration - but I'd like someone to answer my "questions" first :-)
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Andrew Laignel <[email protected]>wrote: > Can I make an observation on the date/time control? I found that the > calendars on a large amount of my public facing terminals kept having the > wrong date and eventually tracked it down to the fact that people often want > to know what day it is on a certain date, so they used the default Windows > XP date/calendar tool – with the side effect of actually changing the date > in the process. I say this because Microsoft have obviously spotted this > behaviour too and in Windows 7 clicking the date will give you a calendar, > but it will not change the date. I’ve noticed that this feature is > specified in the Monthly Calendar option in your provided link (Whenever > “Monthly calendar” is checked, the calendar should be present.) but appears > to be disabled by default and seems more about displaying events. > > If you do do any work on this maybe bear the use-case of needing to know > what day a date falls on in mind as a situation such as “I’ll meet you next > Tuesday, what date is that?” is probably more common than you’d think and > having the information available in the date/time panel indicator by default > seems to fit well with users expectations. > > Cheers! > > > > On 07/08/2010 22:32, "Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > I just saw the spec of the Time&Date indicator at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate, and I have a couple of questions: > 1. Is anyone working on the settings dialog? > 2. If the answer is no, can I develop it in a separate branch? (for 11.04) > 3. If the answer is yes, can I program it in Python? I noticed the > indicator is coded in C, and I mainly code in Python/PyGTK. > > Thank you, > Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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