Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16-2000-07-20 Severity: wishlist The timezone dialog is one of the most bizarre I've ever seen. There are two lists: one that seems (at first glance) to contain continents or country names, and one which lists time zone abbreviations (among other things). A logical interpretation is that choosing a country/continent in the first list should cause the second list to present the time zones in that continent/country. Not so. The two lists are apparently completely independent. Given that, why are they separate? (By the way, ``Arctic'', ``Etc'', ``Indian'', and ``SystemV'' are neither countries nor continents, which means that your initial impression about the contents of the first list is wrong.) Once you choose something that seems like a possibility from one of the lists and hit OK, you get a screen showing choices within that group (which I expected to see in the second list on the first page). Why not let the user choose their continent, then present them with a list of countries on that continent, then with a list of cities/time zones in that country? Or even just present a list of cities and let people choose one that they know is in their time zone. (That's pretty much what the Mac OS does.) Experts who wanted one of the weirder choices could always change the time zone later by hand or use an ``expert time-zone-setting'' dialog that lets them type in whatever they want or presents them with a more complex set of choices. System information ================== Debian Release: potato Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux diziet 2.2.16-foo #2 Mon Jun 12 17:14:16 PDT 2000 ppc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
