[haiku-development] Re: Timezones

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:23 +0200

Philippe Saint-Pierre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm doing a TODO in Time Preflets and I have a question/need your 
> opinions..  The task I'm doing right now involves adding a Revert feature 
> to that preflet.. It works great with date/time and timezones in general, 
> excepts in one case.  If there is no timezone symlink present, the 
> preflet will start up with no selected timezone (that's ok) but I cannot 
> really revert it to "nothing" (or maybe I can, if I must).  My question 
> is, what should be the preflet's behaviour?
> 
> Choices :
> 
> 1. Do not revert the timezone if there was none to begin with (but still
> revert the time)
> 2. At preflet's launch, set a default timezone if there is none set yet.
> 2b. Do 2) but also display a warning to the user, saying his timezone has
> been set.
> 3. Profit?! .. No, I mean, when the user click revert, erase the timezone
> link we just created when he selected his new timezone.
> 4. Other?

I would go with 2 or 3. Probably 2. :-) It doesn't matter much, since both 
should result in the same behavior.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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