https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982
--- Comment #224 from Jérôme Borme <jer...@escreve.me> --- One argument was that if an option is implemented in systemsettings (and not in ICU/Qt/POSIX), then the behaviour of the plasma desktop will be inconsistent with non-KDE applications are going to display differently than GTK/etc. when tuning the date option in systemsettings. This argument applies to plasma desktop, but KDE goes beyond that. I personally use KDE applications but my main system does not use plasma and I think this is a legitimate use case scenario for which the KDE developers should propose a solution. Now let's have a look at the KDE Applications. * Dolphin supports two date formats: absolute and relative. Changing the setting in dolphin does not impact the KDE File Selection dialogue and other KDE/Qt/GTK software * Spectacle allows to save files according to the GNU coreutils "date" syntax (by default: Screenshot_%Y%M%D_%H%m%S) * calligrasheets offers 37 formatting styles for date entries (2 of which are called "System" formats and I presume follow systemsettings) We can see that KDE application developers are open to add relevant date formatting options when they make sense for their software, even though this could be understood as an inconsistency KDE-wide. Therefore I think it would be very helpful to implement a free format option in *dolphin* as: 1) dolphin already has 2 options to choose from so it does not change the UI logic or reduce the elegance of KDE software, and 2) spectacle already does something similar. The file manager is a central place where users spend time reading file dates and times, I believe this would help solving a significant fraction of the problem, and alleviate the frustration while waiting for a solution that can be applied to KDE as a whole. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
