[haiku-development] Re: Desbar patch

Hi,

> First of all, thanks for your work!
np, i won't stop working on Haiku  :)

> However, I don't think having another bool for the ISO date is the 
> right approach to take
It should have been seen as an intermediate solution as long something
more appropriate like a locale server is in place. Then the whole thing
needs to change anyway in both Tracker and Deskbar or any other app.

>  (besides I don't really think that this has any 
> use for the end user at all). 
This is a mater of taste anyway. 

Let's take for example the recently added auto rise feature, for me it
was totally annoying that while accidentally moving the mouse to fast
away from my app ending over the Deskbar it would bring it up and
steeling my window the focus without being able to get it back. And even
more annoying was that i didn't know why it happened at all.

If i like to have auto rise, i would have enabled focus follows mouse
(or whatever the option is called) in the mouse prefs as only then i'm
able to go back to my window and have the focus there again.

So IOW i don't think it should have been implemented Deskbar specific or
at least it should be off by default. But as i said, this is all a mater
of taste.

> Instead, the time preferences should 
> contain a short and long date format string that applications may use.
This would not solve the problem that on app start it has to query
something or read it from some settings to get the proper time and date
format.

> I also don't like saving those in different places too much.
It is reusing what's there and Tracker and Deskbar have there own
settings for the same thing anyway.

So maybe it would make much more sense to wait with such settings until
the locale system is place and implement it then properly. 

Please don't get me wrong, don't see it as a personal offense or an
defiant, childish reaction that i will revert the settings changes, but
it's not worth to spend a lot of time on such a small feature while
there are plenty more important things to do.

Kind regards,
Julun

Other related posts: