[kde-linux] Re: Digital clock day & date

[James Tyrer]

On 02/10/2011 02:14 AM, Duncan wrote:
>  Kevin Krammer posted on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:38:08 +0100 as
>  excerpted:
>
> > On Thursday, 2011-02-10, James Tyrer wrote:
> >> On 02/09/2011 08:14 AM, James Tyrer wrote:
> >>> Well we are up to version 4.6 and I again ask:
> >>>
> >>> Is it really that hard to do this? [attached]
> >>
> >> Or this? [attached]
> >
> > You mean the full name of the week day?
>
>  I took it to mean the digital look of the font (that the digital
>  clock should look... digital, like the old kde3 one did, IIRC),

That would be nice, but this is just a free font.

>  tho with just the image and nothing pointing out what bit he wants
>  the current one to look like it, that's simply a wild guess based on
>  the assumption that the digital clock follows the kcontrol/locale
>  date prefs, which given that he's a regular here, I figured he'd know
>  where to find.

A user would make that presumption but it isn't correct.  The date 
format does not follow the one set in System Settings.

>  But actually adding it so I can see and taking a look... it appears
>  that it /might/ follow the time prefs, but it does NOT follow either
>  the short or long date prefs!

Correct.  And there is no way for the clock to choose short or long.

>  I'd definitely call that a bug!

Yes that would be bug *156360.* <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156360>

>  Perhaps it should /optionally/ have
>  its own, but by default, it should be following the kcontrol locale
>  time and date prefs, probably with an option whether it should follow
>  the short or long version.

Yes, and that would be bug 162368 which is where my demo patch was 
posted 2010-05-08 10:45

Bug 162368 is marked as fixed, but if it was, the fix is not in 4.6.0.

-- 
James Tyrer

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