Re: [Evolution] Date formats

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

> You can write there almost anything. It's using strftime internally,
> thus it understands all format specifiers from it, plus a special one
> "%ad". There is an obvious lack of information in user docs, though
> I'm not sure whether a regular user would understand all those %.. tags.

Speaking of which, that combo widget could use some usability love.

Instead of listing a bunch of cryptic format codes which even I can't
parse, the combo should list the current date and time in various
formats with maybe a "Customize Format" option at the bottom.

But before we do that I think it's worth asking does that combo really
need to be customizable?  Really?  Couldn't we just add more options by
popular demand?  Are there really that many more variations of date
formats in use out there?

Seems like an interaction design cop-out to me, but then I'm happy with
the defaults so maybe I'm just being naive.

Matthew Barnes