[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev44050 - src/apps/deskbar
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:16:14 +0200
John Scipione wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> > Le Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:09:20 +0200, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
> > a écrit:
> >> FWIW, I do find a time zone option useful. I didn't get around to check
> >> how
> >> it worked, but from what I gathered it was just showing the current system
> >> wide time zone. I find the respective feature of the KDE clock much more
> >> useful. There you can select a set of time zones and simply switch between
> >> (IIRC formerly directly via context menu, now via the settings dialog).
> >> The
> >> time zone setting would only affect the clock, not the whole system, which
> >> would also avoid a problem when the hardware clock is set to local time.
> >
> > I think this is overkill functionality for the default clock in the OS.
> > It's easy to use another clock replicant with more features if you have to
> > navigate between different timezones a lot.
AFAIK the time view in Deskbar is not a replicant at all. I'm also unaware of
any clock replicant that has this functionality.
> And KDE doesn't follow the principle of "sane defaults, not maximum
> configurability" which I have been reminded of several times now regarding
> this feature.
What principles KDE follows is irrelevant. I was just mentioning a feature that
I found handy the last time I was traveling to another time zone. And that
feature actually solves a problem Haiku currently has (it changes the time,
when you change the time zone and the hardware clock is set to local time). I'm
not traveling that often, so I don't mind that much, but people would do might
find the status quo annoying.
> You had your change to speak up for this feature before, I
> tried to sell it's merits, but, nobody bought them so I went with what the
> majority seemed to think was best, that is, no timezone setting at all.
Mea culpa. I admittedly don't read mails on mailing lists that carefully these
days, so I probably just missed that you intended to remove the feature again.
CU, Ingo
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