Re: date display in group and thread level

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:25:28AM +0200, Urs Janßen wrote:
> In <[email protected]>, Dennis Preiser wrote:
>> In order to not overloading the screen, the date is only shown when the
>> terminal has more than 120 columns. This can be controlled via
>> MIN_COLS_TO_SHOW_DATE in tin.h.
> 
> I don't think it's a good idea to implement some functionality
> visible to the user (in the menu) which doesn't work on the usual
> setup (24x80 terminal) - or at least the MIN_COLS_TO_SHOW_DATE should
> be configurable at runtime (precompiled binary of the distribution
> has unchanged MIN_COLS_TO_SHOW_DATE, user runs on 24x80 and see the
> option but never get's it to work).

The more I think about it -- yes, that could confuse users.

> Or "simply" make the screen layout _fully_ controlable by the user
> ,-)

That seems to be the best solution. We'll see what can be done.

> btw. shouldn't we use wcsftime() (if available) when MULTIBYTE_ABLE &&
> NO_LOCALE?

Probably yes.

Dennis