[haiku-development] Re: Moving clock options to Time Preferences
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:12:12 -0500
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:02 PM, <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 01:13:40PM -0500, Justin Stressman wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:54 PM, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I would argue that there should at least be some way to get to the
>> relevant section of the Locale preferences from the Clock preferences.
>> The real issue here is that most users aren't going to think or know
>> to go to the Locale settings to change something like 12/24 hour
>> preferences. Not having any way to get to those settings from the
>> first place essentially every user checks seems to be a usability
>> failure to me. It's not that we have to take it out of Locale even...
>> but give the user a common sense route to find them from the first
>> place they look... the Clock preferences.
>>
>> My real issue with the 12/24 hour setting being under locale is that
>> users are going to look under Clock preferences and be lost because
>> the settings aren't in the obvious place.
>>
> I pretty much agree with the above. My personal 12/24 hr preference is
> independent of my locale. I have 24hr setting on at least one machine,
> even though I'm in the US, just because I'm used to it and it can be
> convenient.
>
> Leave it in the Locale Prefs if you like, but duplicate it in the
> obvious Time Prefs place.
It seems like there is no way to please everyone here. I could have a
setting in Time (or wherever the clock preferences wind up) that sets
12/24 hour format for the clock only overriding the locale setting
controlled by a "Override locale time format" checkbox. Would that be
acceptable?
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