Proposal: consistency for dateFormat()

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Freitag, 20. Januar 2006 10:45 schrieb Jaroslaw Staniek:
> Hello,
> My proposal is to change the default of shortFormat to true for KDElibs4
> here:
>
> QString KLocale::formatDate(const QDate &pDate, bool shortFormat = false)
> const;
>
> Why? Many of KLocale data/time-related functions default to short formats,
> in particular, shortFormat is true by default here:
>
>    QString KLocale::formatDateTime(const QDateTime &pDateTime,
> 			 bool shortFormat = true,
> 			 bool includeSecs = false) const;
>
> I must admit that at least two times I used formatDate(const QDate &)
> expecting short format as in formatDateTime() and was surprised that long
> format was printed.

Objection! That is a suprise regression from KDE3 to KDE4. I wouldn't object 
if you change the interface to use some well defined enum for that, so that 
the developer needs to change his code to follow the new API

Greetings, Stephan