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calendar: Use relative times for notification timestamps

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For notifications in the message list, it is usually less relevant
when exactly it occurred, but how long ago. So rather than showing
the exact time and expecting the user to figuring out the timespan
themselves, change the format to something human readable.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775763
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Florian Müllner 2017-02-27 02:17:29 +01:00
parent c4f2bb5fe0
commit f3d1c78c7d
2 changed files with 42 additions and 3 deletions
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js/misc/util.js
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@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
// -*- mode: js; js-indent-level: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-
const Clutter = imports.gi.Clutter;
const Gettext = imports.gettext;
const Gio = imports.gi.Gio;
const GLib = imports.gi.GLib;
const Lang = imports.lang;
@ -163,6 +164,41 @@ function _handleSpawnError(command, err) {
Main.notifyError(title, err.message);
}
function formatTimeSpan(date) {
let now = GLib.DateTime.new_now_local();
let timespan = now.difference(date);
let minutesAgo = timespan / GLib.TIME_SPAN_MINUTE;
let hoursAgo = timespan / GLib.TIME_SPAN_HOUR;
let daysAgo = timespan / GLib.TIME_SPAN_DAY;
let weeksAgo = daysAgo / 7;
let monthsAgo = daysAgo / 30;
let yearsAgo = weeksAgo / 52;
if (minutesAgo < 5)
return _("Just now");
if (hoursAgo < 1)
return Gettext.ngettext("%d minute ago",
"%d minutes ago", minutesAgo).format(minutesAgo);
if (daysAgo < 1)
return Gettext.ngettext("%d hour ago",
"%d hours ago", hoursAgo).format(hoursAgo);
if (daysAgo < 2)
return _("Yesterday");
if (daysAgo < 15)
return Gettext.ngettext("%d day ago",
"%d days ago", daysAgo).format(daysAgo);
if (weeksAgo < 8)
return Gettext.ngettext("%d week ago",
"%d weeks ago", weeksAgo).format(weeksAgo);
if (yearsAgo < 1)
return Gettext.ngettext("%d month ago",
"%d months ago", monthsAgo).format(monthsAgo);
return Gettext.ngettext("%d year ago",
"%d years ago", yearsAgo).format(yearsAgo);
}
function formatTime(time, params) {
let date;
// HACK: The built-in Date type sucks at timezones, which we need for the

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js/ui/calendar.js
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@ -957,9 +957,12 @@ const NotificationSection = new Lang.Class({
},
_createTimeLabel: function(datetime) {
let label = Util.createTimeLabel(datetime);
label.style_class = 'event-time',
label.x_align = Clutter.ActorAlign.START;
let label = new St.Label({ style_class: 'event-time',
x_align: Clutter.ActorAlign.START });
label.connect('notify::mapped', () => {
if (label.mapped)
label.text = Util.formatTimeSpan(datetime);
});
return label;
},