[Konversation-devel] [Bug 225189] ability to set Universal Time as stamp display

[Dr. Dwight Scott Miller]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225189





--- Comment #5 from Dr. Dwight Scott Miller <jdecs mssblue net>  2010-02-02 19:50:15 ---
On Tuesday, 02 February 2010 1233:59 Eike Hein wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225189

> --- Comment #3 from Eike Hein <hein kde org>  2010-02-02 19:33:47 ---
> There was no dudgeon intended; sorry if it read like that. I'm not a native
> speaker (nor are most KDE developers).
And I have forgotten most of the German, Russian, and Viet I used to have, 
too. No offense taken, I was caught off guard by the form.
> 
> I was merely interested in a clarification of your use case.
Thank you. I tried to include that with my reply.
> For an
> application developer, adding another option is relatively easy. In fact,
> it's often the easy way out: Rather than making an effort to identify an
> underlying need that might be served better by a design change, an option
> gets added.
LOL! Yes, I quite understand that concern. I have received steam from more 
than one user when I suggested a more global approach to a request. Bells & 
Whistles are not my intent; I love a "clean" app'.

> ... so a decent developer will approach any
> suggestion of a new option with "Is it _really_ needed, or is there a
> simpler/better way?"
Agreed. Did I succeed in making clear that I think the request applies fairly 
narrowly to IRC, rather than making a single choice of time display for the 
whole desktop?
>
> Don't mistake that for dudgeon, rather it's collaborative brainstorming.
Point taken, and my apologies for a somewhat acerbic reply to your first.

> Open source is participatory; when you file a request here, you basically
> agree to be drafted to involve yourself in the design process :).
Understood and I am quite willing to do whatever I can. My programming 
languages are a bit archaic, but I can document and analyze, even with 7 
decades of wear & tear on the brain.

Best regards,

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