stroller at stellar
Nov 5, 2009, 12:53 PM
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Re: New KDE4 option: "night of the week for strip club attendance" WTF?
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On 4 Nov 2009, at 18:14, Erik wrote:
> Stroller skrev:
>> On 4 Nov 2009, at 13:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> ...
>>> There are four options here, first day of week, first working day of
>>> week, last working day of week and day of the week for religious
>>> observance. It would appear your locale uses a different
>>> translation!
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>> I am torn as whether to find this funny or improper.
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>> Only when I know what it's supposed to say I really like the joke
>> that
>> both are equally important. Why indeed give religious observance a
>> higher priority?!?!
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> ...
> My point is of course that in my desktop environment, I do not want an
> option for either strip club attendance, religious observance, or
> anything else that someone else might want to do once a week.
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> I would prefer to keep the desktop environment neutral (secular) by
> default. If there is indeed a need for such an option to make sundays
> red in the calendar, it would be more proper to call it sometning more
> neutral, like "Weekly holiday", "Ceremonial weekday" or "Special
> weekday". The user can then let that mean lap dance, prayer, family
> dinner, hiking, hacking or whatever he may be interested in.
The thing is that "day of the week for religious observance" is
intuitive - it should default to Sunday in the west, Saturday in
certain regions, and Pastafarians can select the day appropriate to
their observance.
The meaning of "day for religious observance" is quite obvious - that
it applies to the common case of a recurring weekly all-day event.
Consequently the strip club joke is unhelpful because one doesn't
usually take the whole day off for this reason.
I don't use KDE myself, so I'm left to wonder if it's possible to have
multiple "dayS of the week for religious observance" - I believe Jews
observe from Friday evening through the weekend. Can this be marked by
the same mechanism?
How about the secular? In the west we usually have both Saturday and
Sunday off from our office jobs. Are these clearly marked in a similar
manner? If I agreed with my boss to work weekend technical support and
have Mondays and Tuesdays off, could I change it so these are
displayed as my "weekend"?
Stroller.
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