[openbeos] Re: JPBE changes (was: Re: news: development mailing list, distro guidelines )

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:03:51 +0200 CEST

> 2007/5/23, Fredrik Ekdahl <fekdahl@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Three things here strikes me:
> > * Window/Preferences/Date and Time/Clock = 24 Hour
> > * Window/Preferences/Date and Time/Date Order = Year-Month-Day
> > Are there any reasons for why these settings are not default? If 
> > I'm not
> > totally mistaken, that time/date format is used in most countries 
> > and
> > follows ISO 8601.
> 
> Because not everyone likes this and for most people it's crap, I 
> guess.
> Although I find the default's (american, I would guess) month-day-
> year
> even worse.

Specially when EU uses day-month-year, making things like 01/02/1979 
ambiguous in europe when you don't know for sure.

> > * Window/Preferences/Volumes Icons/Show Space Bars ON Volumes = 
> > validity
> > Is there anyone who doesn't use that feature?
> 
> No idea.

I do sometimes disable it because it does a lot of calls to stat() and 
other stuff... polutes syslog when checking for fs-related things, and 
also floods the network with NFS.
(also the number of stat() is proportional to the number of open 
windows, while it should be constant (N for Desktop window), seems to 
be a bug in Tracker).

François.

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