Re: New clock applet for 2.22

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Luis Villa skrev:
> On 9/25/07, Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > > The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's useless
> > > > clutter, relaly).  I think the week number is there in the released versoin
> > > > due to the way the GtkCalendar widget works.
> > >
> > > Those can (and should be) be turned off. The calendar should maybe be
> > > made a bit more useful in general, maybe adding some decorations to
> > > show which days
> > > have appointments, deadlines or birthdays, Currently, it is just a
> > > field of numbers that takes up quite a bit of room.
> >
> > Nooo, please keep week number.  For some people it's actually really
> > useful!
>
> New d-d-l rule: no one gets to say 'it is useful' without explaining
> their use case :)

I use it daily too. The current clock applet only shows week numbers 
when a secret gconf key is enabled though, if I am not mistaken?

The week numbers are used for planning projects and work and vacations 
and things like that, it's a lot easier and less error prone than using 
full dates. I am not sure if it's a European thing perhaps? At least in 
Sweden we use them for planning all the time (in school, at work, ...).

For instance, it's perfectly normal here to say "this year, I will have 
my vacation weeks 32 to 35" and nobody will look at you and wonder if 
you're crazy ;)

/Richard

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