On Wednesday 27 August 2014 11:34:52 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > In my opinion, this is a very serious usability regression and would > > stop me from using Plasma 5. Are there any plans to change the > > behavior/appearance of this settings applet? > > I don't know what it is, but anytime someome doesn't like something, it's > "usability" all of a sudden. Usability has a strict meaning, and translating > it to "I don't use it, but I don't like it, so it's bad usability" isn't > very useful. > > I understand that it changes you way you set up your system, of course.
Actually, while the fact that choosing formats and units by locale instead of directly isn't necessarily a usability problem, presenting all locales in a single drop-down _is_ . See also the HIG for drop-down lists [1] which says "For a single selection out of a large number of items (n>20), use a list view". This is because, as Matthew stated, scrolling through a huge list inside a drop-down is very very cumbersome. I've just filed a bug about this issue [1]. The above being said, I do understand that people who e.g. prefer the metric system though they live in a region that uses the imperial system by default might find it unnecessarily intricate to find out which region uses their preferred system first. The benefits of using the POSIX-compliant locale system instead of custom formats selection still outweigh the costs from my point of view, but maybe we can find a way for people to make it easier for them to switch to common formats? Could we maybe put a hint somewhere that e.g. en_DK might give people what they need at least for the date and time formats? [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338599 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel