[PATCH] Panel Clock Improvements: I18N tooltip, calender popup

[Oliver M. Bolzer]

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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:33:57AM +0100, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at moongroup.com> wrote...
> > - Calender Popup when clicking on the clock
 
> I'm not sure. I was thinking about running xfcalendar from the clock.
> That would give you additional appointments.

How about making it a fallback if xfcalender is not installed ?
The code is not big. Also, if xfcalendar is used, *I* *really* prefer
it popping up without a window border. The menu could be displayed
on right-click. But that's a personal opinion.
 
> Excellent. I did already make the panel use strftime in CVS, but your
> patch is much more thorough, since I forgot the conversion to utf8 ;-)
> Btw, the utf8date string must be freed afterwards.

Oops. Seems like I am spending too much time with convenient languages,
especially Ruby :-)
 
> However, I don't like the date represented in the numeric format, so I
> guess the only way to do this is let translators change the format
> string. I believe xffm does this as well. Are there any other options?

In most locales, D_FMT is a terse format. Unfortunately, there is no
D_FMT_LONG or D_FMT_VERB :-(.  On glibc systems there is _DATE_FMT
that defines the format used by date(1), which could be used after
filtering out unneccersary fields like timezone and time, but that's
ugly and unportable. Looks like strftime() with _(date_format) is the 
only viable option. 
-- 
	Oliver M. Bolzer
	oliver at gol.com

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