Re: UI change to GDM

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 7/27/05, Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron sun com> wrote:
> Luis Villa wrote:
> 
> >>>On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 14:02 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>I realize it is past the UI freeze date, but to fix bug #145549, it is
> >>>>necessary to make a small change to the UI.  gdmsetup currently has a
> >>>>checkbox to decide if the user wants a 12 hour or 24 hour clock to be
> >>>>shown in GDM.  To fix the bug, we need to change this to a dropdown
> >>>>list where the user can pick "12 hour", "24 hour" or "auto".  The
> >>>>new "auto" setting gets the format from the LC_TIME environment
> >>>>variable so that GDM looks more consistant with other applications.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, any reason why it can't be *just* auto?
> 
> Refer to comment #5 here:
> 
>    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145549

That sounds like poor justification to me (one can always imagine
justifications for that kind of option) but it is clearly your call.
Go forth and patch. :)
Luis