[emelfm] Re: Happy New Year
- From: Florian Zähringer <flo.zaehringer@xxxxxx>
- To: emelfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:26:05 +0100
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:47:00 +0100
Martin Zelaia <martintxoz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all :-)
>
> Finally, I am subscribed (with another email, martintxoz@xxxxxxxx),
> goooood!! :-D ...
welcome :)
>
> Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:15:34 +0100 eguna,
> Florian Zähringer <flo.zaehringer@xxxxxx>(e)k idatzi zuen:
>
> > Happy New Year!
> >
> > Seems like we are slowly but constantly growing. Now we are 5 :)
>
> Good
>
> > Unfortunately I'm very busy and stressed at the moment but I things will
> > settle in spring. Until then you cannot expect big deeds from me :(
> >
> > If you haven't noticed: emelfm2.org is down. Tooar set up something new
> > at emelfm2.net. Thus all old links should work if you replace org with
> > net.
> >
> > Anyway I plan to start -elm2 pretty soon.
>
> These are so good news. Go ahead Flo !!!
Yeah, and you are the first to do something ;D
Could you please grab a elm1 tar.gz and do a "diff -urN" with your modified
copy of emelfm-elm1?
If you don't know how to do this check out the docs/ in emelfm2 or mail me. I
would like to include your changes for testing purposes.
>
> > First I want to include all of
> > Martintxo's changes so people can test it. Like he did I planed to change
> > the date since many people ask about that. I would suggest a format like
> > 'ls -l' does it: YYYY-MM-DD. That should do for English and Non-English
> > users... comments on this are welcome.
>
> This is a good idea, the data format in emelfm1 is too bad.
>
> The suggestion of the 'ls -l' format for the date is easy to understand in
> many languages. But the complet format is 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM'. I think that
> the time (HH:MM) is important too.
>
> Another possibility to made it may be the '%x %X' formats in date (see man
> date). So, I made some test with some locales, and these are the outputs of
> date:
>
> martintxo@fundy:~$ export LANG=es_ES
> martintxo@fundy:~$ date +'%x %X'
> 04/01/06 19:32:10
>
> martintxo@fundy:~$ export LANG=en_EN
> martintxo@fundy:~$ date +'%x %X'
> 01/04/06 19:32:28
>
> martintxo@fundy:~$ export LANG=fr_FR
> martintxo@fundy:~$ date +'%x %X'
> 01/04/06 19:32:58
>
> martintxo@fundy:~$ export LANG=en_EU
> martintxo@fundy:~$ date +'%x %X'
> 01/04/06 19:33:15
>
> martintxo@fundy:~$ export LANG=de_DE
> martintxo@fundy:~$ date +'%x %X'
> 01/04/06 19:40:29
>
> So I think that this may be a good possibility too, no? :-). Think on it.
> The Florian idea is good for me too :-).
Wow. Thanks for looking into this. I didn't know it changes for different
languages. That makes it more easy. Thank you.
>
> > As I already mentioned my progressbar plugins will get a small fix. Maybe
> > not in the first preview of -elm2.
> >
> > I didn't investigate too deep but I think the ctrl-click thing Jeff
> > suggested is not that easy to implement. At least not if you want it
> > configurable.
> >
> > Another thing came up: debian.
> > I'm a debian-user myself and I suggested to Eduard Bloch (who maintains
> > the original emelfm for debian) that I would help him with my changes. I
> > think it makes no sense to make a new debian package emelfm-elm. Just
> > patch the old one. But he didn't respond to that :( But it should be
> > possible to get at least my bug fixes into the debian package. I could at
> > least submit my fixes as separated patches. But then the progressbars
> > would be missing. Maybe if more people write Eduard about this...
> >
> >
> > Ok, That's it for now. Wish you all a very pleasant and successfull year
> > 2006.
> >
> > -- Florian
> >
>
> Many thanks for the goooood work, Florian. Greetings. Martintxo.
Calm down :)
Until know I just had a few thoughts and wrote three mails ;)
-- Florian
>
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