Re: Chronological bar wrong

[Steve Herber <herber thing com>]

The timeline, chronological bar, has always looked wrong to me.
There are a number of bugs about the timeline and the first
one starts to address the problems:

Bug 577373 - Suggestion: reverse Timeline (on default)

Are these two dups?
Bug 396574 - Make it posible to have the timeline vertical 
Bug 569173 - Timeline on side for widescreen monitors

Bug 557247 - Timeline and selected picture should be in sync

Bug 556943 - Improve timeline scrolling



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On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Pierre Hanser wrote:

> Le 05/02/2011 22:19, Jack a ?crit :
> > On 2011.02.03 05:47, Pierre Hanser wrote:
> > > the chronological bar is wrong: now (feb 2011) it is between 2011 and
> > > 2010 where it should be between 2011 and 2012 it's off by 1 year and
> > > that's quite disturbing
> >
> > I think you may just have reversed the order.  It appears a year label
> > is always at the left end of that year.  If time flows right to left,
> > then the "2011" label is over December 2011 and February 2011 is almost
> > (back) to December 2010, where the "2010" label is located.  Try right
> > clicking on the bar and selecting "reverse order" and see if that make
> > more sense to you.
> >
> > Jack
>
> if it's a feature, ok
>
> my point is that it's not logical
>
> the choice to have the label of the year at the left end of the year
> is disturbing, in my own opinion, because the label does not behave like
> a graduation on a ruler, which it looks like.
>
> if the year 2011 was really between the label 2011 and 2010 then
> also let's start January at left and fill from left to right, with
> a gap between current date and the end of previous year!
>
> the current situation seems like the content progresses linearly
> from right to left like the time itself behave, but above the content
> description, the date label is a marker (of the end of the year!),
> not a graduation, which is disturbing.