I have a great number of entries under events for each month. I found that, when I scanned down the list, looking for a particular entry, the irregular format slowed me down. Whereas if I used a numeric format, which lined up vertically in columns, like so '2010-07-21', I was able to scan the list much more quickly and find the entry I wanted. Maybe that is just me and in any case it is no big deal since I just rename the events in the format I like. It would require proper usability testing to establish whether this experience is more general. So for me there are real benefits but whether or not that applies to others I won't hazard a guess.
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Tor Løvskogen Bollingmo < [email protected]> wrote: > Is there any real benefits from non-standard date formating? > > On 31. juli 2010, at 20:22, Peter DO Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Should we be afraid of having a few extra options in the preferences, > > provided intelligent defaults are chosen? So, for example, we could have > an > > option for date settings with the default taken from the locales setting. > > > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Bengt Thuree <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Don't you think there will be a lot of complaints that we do not follow > >>> the locale's setting further down the track? > >> > >> I guess so. It’s better to use the global setting than having a > >> non-standard and an extra option in the preferences. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Shotwell mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
