GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 167753
Week numbers missing in calendar popup
Last modified: 2005-10-03 06:38:37 UTC
Please describe the problem: The calendar popup no longer displays week numbers Steps to reproduce: 1. Click on the clock applet 2. A calendar pops out 3. Try to find week numbers Actual results: Week numbers are not there Expected results: Week numbers should be displayed there on the left, on a different background Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: Calendar popup had week numbers in GNOME 2.8, IIRC See also bugs 98711 and 135331
See /apps/panel/applets/${applet}/prefs/show_week_numbers (for ${applet} that is a clock applet).
Thanks! Why is this setting hidden (it is not available in the applet preferences dialog) and disabled by default?
Marius: it's hidden because it's not a pref that is really useful for a lot of people. And it's disabled by default because I don't think a lot of people need this. I guess it might depend on where you live...
It's not where I live, it's where I work. A week is a useful time unit to schedule software development projects, and once you start referring to weeks, you want to identify them by numbers. I do not feel qualified to argue that this setting should on by default, or that it should be added to the settings dialog, so I won't. Although I do think the ability to see week numbers matters to more people than the ability to see "Unix time".
*** Bug 301474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Vincent: Where I work we use week numbers a lot. We have calendars hanging all over the place, mostly just to quickly see the week number. Please reconsider.
It seems it's really useful for people at work. Reopening.
Created attachment 48915 [details] [review] Add week preference
How about a review of this patch?
This is also a localization issue. In some countries, ISO week numbers are *very* frequently used to describe time intervals, not just strictly in workplaces, but in most everyday life. Sweden is such a location. Instead of saying "I'll be on vacation from August 1st to August 12th" people in general just say "I'll be on vacation weeks 31 and 32", and everyone will instantly know what weeks they are talking about. As a consequence, paper planning calendars that do not have printed week numbers are almost unsellable in stationary shops. So comment #3 is really bogus. Since this feature was present in GNOME 2.8, this is very much a visible regression from that version in such locales. At the very least, there should be a way for locales to make the week numbers display by default. Preferrably, this could be enhanced and combined with also a visible way for users to change this preference.
To clarify, I'd like to see patch #48915 improved by a way for locales/translations to make the "Show week numbers" preference be on by default.
vuntz agreed a while ago on IRC to change the default again to show the week numbers. Rejecting the patch for that reason. Please provide one that just changes the scheme (default value) in gconf. Setting GNOME milestone to 2.14.x.
Fixed in HEAD. Will be in 2.12.1.