On 2012-06-28 00:20:44 +0200, Lars Windolf wrote: > Am 28.06.2012 00:17, schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > >On 2012-06-28 00:13:39 +0200, Lars Windolf wrote: > >>Am 28.06.2012 00:10, schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > >>>On 2012-06-27 23:50:30 +0200, Lars Windolf wrote: > >>>>Sorry, I hereby give up explaining my point. > >>>You can patch Liferea so that one can have the YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss > >>>time format and document what the user should do in order to have it. > >>Sure I can but I do not want to as the project needs less code > >>to be maintainable. > >You can remove all the bloated code Liferea already has concerning > >date formatting, and use the YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss format instead > >(or %c if you really want it to be specified by the locales). It > >would have less code and be more maintainable. > Sure, if I want to remove a IMO totally sane formatting style...
Sane for you. Totally insane for me. BTW, if it were really sane, it would already have been provided by some locales, e.g. for %c. > Vincent I do not share your opinion on the date format being > broken and as I explained on the long term their will be a one > liner using the glib method. You didn't. You said (in <4fe9f721.3010...@gmail.com>) that the glib method was for date parsing, not for date formatting. > Without any user interfaces to define format strings only > programmers do understand... That's not completely true. See Mozilla's about:config feature, which is also used by non-programmers. All one needs is documentation, even if not provided with the application (e.g. documentation found on the web). (I'm starting to think that the best method would be an HTML5 interface, where the user could have his own scripts.) -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
