Le mardi 25 septembre 2007, à 15:55 +0200, Richard Hult a écrit : > Luis Villa skrev: > > On 9/25/07, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > >> > > The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's > >> > > useless > >> > > clutter, relaly). I think the week number is there in the released > >> > > versoin > >> > > due to the way the GtkCalendar widget works. > >> > > >> > Those can (and should be) be turned off. The calendar should maybe be > >> > made a bit more useful in general, maybe adding some decorations to > >> > show which days > >> > have appointments, deadlines or birthdays, Currently, it is just a > >> > field of numbers that takes up quite a bit of room. > >> > >> Nooo, please keep week number. For some people it's actually really > >> useful! > > > > New d-d-l rule: no one gets to say 'it is useful' without explaining > > their use case :) > > I use it daily too. The current clock applet only shows week numbers > when a secret gconf key is enabled though, if I am not mistaken?
It used to be disabled during two or three release cycles (2.14->2.18, I'd say), but since nearly all major distributors were patching the default, it didn't make sense to continue this way. > The week numbers are used for planning projects and work and vacations > and things like that, it's a lot easier and less error prone than using > full dates. I am not sure if it's a European thing perhaps? At least in > Sweden we use them for planning all the time (in school, at work, ...). > > For instance, it's perfectly normal here to say "this year, I will have > my vacation weeks 32 to 35" and nobody will look at you and wonder if > you're crazy ;) Interesting. The default could be locale-dependant, but I guess it'd be confusing... Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
