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Time format in WPS

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Mad Cow:

--- Quote from: Llorean on May 08, 2007, 05:31:48 PM ---And what if a WPS wants to have the Month and Day on one line, and the year on another?

Or
HH
MM
SS
for some reason? (Space constraints, or an interesting visual trick for example)

Or any other non-standard layout?

I think that the display of the date is a part of the WPS design, and should not be defined via the time/date options in the menu and vice versa. It cuts a significant amount of flexibility of design out of it, in my mind, by doing it by the menu option.

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I'm fine with configurable date, few WPS's have a date, so it's easier to modify them to suit your wanted format. But almost every WPS has time display, and many of them use the 24 hour clock, while I use the 12-hour. This means that I have to manually edit every single one of them to use them. This takes alot of time, because I have to find and change one or two tags in over 15 WPS's. Time is always displayed H:M in all of my WPS's, and the two time formats take up the same amount of screen space. So there's almost no configurability (If that's a word) benefit, and no space benefit, but the ease of use benefit is much larger.

Llorean:
There's no configurability benefit for you, but it does prevent WPS authors from having the option to create new types of layouts.

As well, I don't see how it increases ease of use at all? Is a 24-hour clock HARDER to read (necessary for it to increase ease of use) or simply just less preferable because you like 12-hour clocks?

I'm simply saying, removing flexibility is not my preferred solution here. You could easily make a small script that could replace the tag in WPS files, and run it on new ones, if it's that big of a deal for you.

Solve the problem for your own use, rather than asking others to take away their options just so you don't have to do it from time to time.

Not that there couldn't be a separate tag, just for a clock in statusbar format, but don't suggest to take away existing abilities.

elborak:

--- Quote from: Mad Cow on May 09, 2007, 03:57:24 PM ---But almost every WPS has time display, and many of them use the 24 hour clock, while I use the 12-hour. This means that I have to manually edit every single one of them to use them. This takes alot of time, because I have to find and change one or two tags in over 15 WPS's.
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I would point out that you are an exception to how most folks use themes/WPS's.  Most will download a handful, try them out, and pick one (or two) that they like.  Is modifying one or two .wps files really that big a burden?

Also, it would be pretty trivial to write a Perl or shell script to unzip a theme, massage the .wps file, and rezip.

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