On Mittwoch 04 November 2009, 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! > > > > I am torn as whether to find this funny or improper. > > > > 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?!?! > > I have encountered arguments like this: > "Yes, there's a setting for that in the country/region settings module > but if you're not interested in it, it won't bother you. If you are, you > can have kontact or the calendar plasmoid show those days as special. > That's it. Sounds unproblematic to me." > > > 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. > > 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. > > Yes, I know that "holiday" sounds like "holy day", but it still feels > broader than "relious observance". According to wikipedia, a holiday can > mean among other things "official or unofficial observances of > religious, national, or cultural significance". So the phrase "Weekly > holiday" covers the current meaning of the KDE option, but is meaningful > even to secular people. Therefore changing the phrase would make KDE > usage more acceptable in secular countries and by secular people. >
sounds like PC crap. Sundays are marked special, because most people don't have to work. Shops are closed and stuff like that. There is no need to bring in religion.
