https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982
John <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #325 from John <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Robin Laing from comment #323) > (In reply to phil4000n from comment #322) > > Well I can attach an img. > > > > Install Thunar if you haven't. > > launch Thunar > > Go to menu Edit>Preferences > > you ought to be on tab: "Display", see at bottom field "date" and its pull > > down format menu. Et voilà there you have 8 choices, in French: > > today > > today with 14:25:55 > > 2026-01-20 14:25:55 > > 01-20-2026 14:25:55 > > 20-01-2026 14:25:55 > > mar 20 jan 2026 14:25:55 > > custom > > today/custom > > > > > > Now take Dolphin > > Configure>Configure Dolphin > > left pane Display and tab Content display and see what you have for date > > format. > > > > In a way a kind of printf function. What's so difficult? > > It is not part of the system settings, which this discussion is about. Also > extra tools. > > Why should I have to install unnecessary applications to set my system date > to a format that I want? On my systems I don't have Dolphin or Thuner > installed. > > I have not looked at the settings recently. Looking today, I can search for > "English" and get a list of English listings. Not one of them is in the > format that I need. I tried to search for the date format. No results > since the format isn't searchable. > > I just want an ISO date of 2026-01-20 13:56, in my language. I agree with you as I want a reversed ISO date, with dots instead of dashes, for my native language (Romanian), like 20.01.2026 13:56 (which I think it's the same for German AFAIK). And this is not the only problem that I have with system settings and Dolphin at least as I cannot also edit / customize the precision for folder and file sizes: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498820 If were up to me, I would just create graphical elements to edit / customize the date and time with a drop-down menu having these 3 options: ISO date (with dashes) 2026-01-20 13:56 Reversed ISO date (with dots) 20.01.2026 13:56 Custom next to it show also how the date and time will look like, that will open / create a free text input to put all those special characters and next to it an "i" button to see a table in a tooltip with all of the possible characters and their explanations that we could use (so internet is not required for lookup). And another one to edit / customize the folder and files sizes with a drop-down menu having these 3 options: 1 digit after the floating point 2 digit after the floating point Custom number of digits after the floating point, which opens another number input box, with the possibility to put 0 to mean all of them, no matter how long the sizes will display. File checksums for SHA256 or SHA512 have very long numbers and letters too and nobody complained and for sure if I set the file size to 0 to see all the number after the floating point, I would not complain as it was my choice to do that. I'm complaining only when others do choices for me and I don't like them, like in this case where both the date and the file size precision cannot be customized to my liking. And I would save all these preferences for dates and file sizes in a pretty-printed JSON file from which Dolphin and other KDE programs could read and obey the preferences. I would use a pretty-printed JSON files so it could be both read by developers and users who would open it it an text editor, but also so we we are ready for a future export / import feature with all user's preferences. I'm honestly very tired of having to always manually do 10-50 changes after each reinstall / clean install of the OS with Plasma on all my computers, all my family computers, all my friends computers. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
