-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hacohen
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 2:26 PM
To: Govindaraju SM
Cc: Enlightenment developer list
Subject: Re: [E-devel] Lib ICU Integration
On 16/09/11 04:44, Govindaraju SM wrote:
> ==> Requirement is providing Date & time input widget which should
> change the format automatically based on current system locale,
> also display the date field strings in the locale specific language. so,
> at this moment ICU lib utilization is only for date & time formatting,
> locale and resource bundle.
> based on our experiment, performance overhead added by ICU is
> negligible. Binary size and its RAM usage, your point is right, due to
> extensive features supported
> by ICU. But I see some more features can be utilized, like locale
> specific number format, currency, regular expressions, any locale Word
> boundary calculation etc...
strftime with "%c" gives you the time based on locale including
translation, ordering and everything. But even if it wasn't the case, it
should be done in the user app and not in the widget toolkit.
==> Thanks for your suggestion. I can very much do with libc with out ICU
for date formatting, including getting locale strings.
ICU integration is dropped.. :)
okay, Why this should widget? I have to display a Date and/or Time
in the single line ( as usual date/time display )
and able to edit it without launching a calendar or other time edit
widget. This new widget does it,
Displays date and allows to edit individual fields.
> ==> Get the locale specific formats, formatted date with locale specific
> strings, context specific field limits ( ex, whats the max date value
> for the specified month/year )
> plus, the resource bundle should be replicated into gettext. Number
> formatting, regex are some of the features can be utilized later.
All this logic should be done in the app and presented in widgets as
wanted, to reason to put that logic in elm.
> ==> Idea is to make a simple date & time input widget. ( calendar widget
> occupies more screen space, need simple widget ). Thank you for your
> input.
> Do you think integrating ICU is okay if, we utilize all the above
> mentioned features?
I still disagree because the reasons mentioned above. This shouldn't be
a widget, and even if it was a widget, I doubt it really needs ICU to
operate (but that's not the important part, the important part is that
it shouldn't be a widget in my opinion).
==> If it is just date/time display, then your point is very much agreeable.
But this new widget provides option to edit individual fields also without
launching Calendar.
( mainly for optimal usage of screen space and change date without too many
clicks )
--
Tom.
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