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[Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi <ilidrissiamine@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sure, I'll take this into consideration - but I'd like someone to answer my
"questions" first :-)

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Andrew Laignel <a.laignel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Can I make an observation on the date/time control?  I found that the
> calendars on a large amount of my public facing terminals kept having the
> wrong date and eventually tracked it down to the fact that people often want
> to know what day it is on a certain date, so they used the default Windows
> XP date/calendar tool – with the side effect of actually changing the date
> in the process.  I say this because Microsoft have obviously spotted this
> behaviour too and in Windows 7 clicking the date will give you a calendar,
> but it will not change the date.  I’ve noticed that this feature is
> specified in the Monthly Calendar option in your provided link (Whenever
> “Monthly calendar” is checked, the calendar should be present.) but appears
> to be disabled by default and seems more about displaying events.
>
> If you do do any work on this maybe bear the use-case of needing to know
> what day a date falls on in mind as a situation such as “I’ll meet you next
> Tuesday, what date is that?” is probably more common than you’d think and
> having the information available in the date/time panel indicator by default
> seems to fit well with users expectations.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
> On 07/08/2010 22:32, "Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi" <ilidrissiamine@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I just saw the spec of the Time&Date indicator at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate, and I have a couple of questions:
> 1. Is anyone working on the settings dialog?
> 2. If the answer is no, can I develop it in a separate branch? (for 11.04)
> 3. If the answer is yes, can I program it in Python? I noticed the
> indicator is coded in C, and I mainly code in Python/PyGTK.
>
> Thank you,
> Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi
>
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