[Kde-pim] Strange behaviour in libkdepim's KDatePickerPopup

[David Jarvie]

On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:27, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 22:17, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Monday 01 January 2007 17:43, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > > Am Mon Jän 1 2007 schrieb David Jarvie:
> > > > On Sunday 31 December 2006 01:13, Bram Schoenmakers wrote:
> > > > > Op zaterdag 30 december 2006 14:36, schreef David Jarvie:
> > > > > > Does anybody know why it's done this way, and does anybody
> > > > > > object to me removing the Friday and Sunday entries?
> > > > >
> > > > > Friday is the end of the work week and Sunday the end of a normal
> > > > > week (makes me realize it should adapt to the First Day Of Week
> > > > > setting in KControl). When you schedule tasks it's quite common
> > > > > to pick either one of these days, that's why I've added these
> > > > > days to the list.
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe we should rename Friday to "End Of Work Week" and Sunday to
> > > > > "End Of Week". I'm not really in favour of removing these
> > > > > entries.
> >
> > Parties are either Friday or Saturday most of the time. And Monday, aka
> > the begin of the (work) week, is at least as important as the end of
> > the (work) week.
> >
> > > Well, you run into all kinds of problems with other cultures. E.g. in
> > > Israel the work week seems to be sunday to thursday.
> > >
> > > And in KOrganizer you might have configured different working days,
> > > like monday, wednesday, friday and saturday. What's the end of the
> > > work week in that case? Of course, we can't use the settings from
> > > korganizer in libkdepim's date picker, but the user expect the date
> > > picker in korganizer to honor the work week settings and use the
> > > configured end of the work week.
> > >
> > > In short, I don't see an easy way to make these hard-coded entries
> > > l10n-proof.
> >
> > If anything then I'd add the five days following today and tomorrow.
> > Then all eight days ranging from today until "next week" would be
> > easily available. Of course, that's probably too many entries.
>
> I agree that including every weekday is too many entries. After all, they
> are all selectable in the date picker anyway.
>
> Given that the whole of the current week is already displayed in the date
> picker, including end-of-work-week, end-of-week, party-days-this-week or
> any other days of particular significance in this week, it doesn't seem to
> be particularly useful to display these shortcuts in the menu list at the
> bottom. They can all be selected without having to shift the dates
> currently displayed. IMHO including these items just complicates/enlarges
> the widget for no real benefit.
>
> So I would propose removing the end-of-work-week (especially because it's
> possible to define the work week as non-contiguous blocks of days), and
> also remove the Sunday item. If we really must keep Sunday, then it should
> be renamed to "End of week" and made to recognise the user's week start day
> setting.

Since there have been no further comments, I will go ahead and remove Friday 
and Sunday tonight unless somebody objects. If anybody thinks that the Sunday 
entry should be retained, I would argue that because it ignores the user's 
start-of-week setting, it would be preferable to remove Sunday now, and once 
the message freeze is relaxed for KDE 3.5.7 to add a new "End of week" 
message then. Personally, I think that "End of week" is just clutter since 
the day is always visible in the date picker.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html
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