From: Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Date header rewrite
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:50:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <smufws5fic6.fsf@linuxpal.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871v3p69ij.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:13:08 -0800")
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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com> writes:
>
>> So I propose:
>>
>> variable to say how many date/time components to show. Currently this
>> is 3, but I would default to 2.
>>
>> variable to suppress other than MSD when zero. currently this is t,
>> but I would argue the default should be nil.
>
> I think this is way, way more customisation than what a frivolous
> feature like this warrants.
The problem is that the hard-coded defaults you chose are viewed as too
flashy by many. So if you don't suppress zero MSD, and change to 2
components then probably there wouldn't be critical mass in wanting it
more complicated.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 1:56 Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-31 8:07 ` Francis Moreau
2011-01-31 9:38 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2011-01-31 10:34 ` Robert Pluim
2011-01-31 10:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-31 11:30 ` Robert Pluim
2011-02-01 1:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 7:42 ` Robert Pluim
2011-02-01 19:23 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-03 4:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-31 13:49 ` Greg Troxel
2011-02-01 1:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 1:47 ` Richard Riley
2011-02-01 2:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 2:25 ` Richard Riley
2011-02-01 2:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 2:44 ` Richard Riley
2011-02-01 3:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 6:41 ` Richard Riley
2011-02-01 18:23 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-02-01 6:05 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-02-01 6:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 17:05 ` James Cloos
2011-02-02 11:18 ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-01 18:54 ` Greg Troxel
2011-02-03 4:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-03 11:50 ` Greg Troxel [this message]
2011-02-01 8:11 ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-01 8:23 ` Robert Pluim
2011-02-01 9:17 ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-01 10:06 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-01 10:11 ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-01 10:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 10:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 10:11 ` Francis Moreau
2011-02-01 10:08 ` Robert Pluim
2011-02-01 10:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-01 11:15 ` Robert Pluim
2011-02-03 4:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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