Re: [Gnumed-devel] Display of right-arrow next to Date of Birth in client

[Karsten Hilbert]

I have removed the arrows (for 1.5) as they appear
to be too controversial.

The tooltip will retain the "interval to birthday"
calculation.

Karsten

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:23:49PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> On 2014-02-08, at 2:14 PM, Jim Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 1. I find the distraction of arrows which signal "are we before, or after, 
> > the birthdate" to outweigh their informational value.
> > 
> >     --> Can it be made possible to "turn them off"?
> > 
> 
> I might be wrong, but I am interpreting the non-response to the thread 
> (partially) as reluctance to drop the arrows.
> 
> I do concede a downside to the alternative
> 
>       [age at Dec 31]
> 
> and so if we would persist to find an optimal use for the arrows, can we 
> relocate them into the "age"?
> 
> After all, arrows relate more to the impact of date of birth on "age at 
> December 31" than they do on the date of birth itself and so how about, if 
> instead of
> 
>       04 Jan 1998 ← (16y 1m)
> 
> we do one of
> 
>       04 Jan 1998 (16y ← 1m)
>       04 Jan 1998 (16y 1m ←)
> 
> or even omit the above arrow as "implied" or express it instead as
> 
>       04 Jan 1998 (16y + 1m)
> 
> meaning that they did already this year attain 16 years and are now adding 
> months to their age-this-year of 16, whereas in the case of a birthday yet to 
> occur this year,
> 
>       04 Mar 1998 (→ 15y 11m)
> 
> the arrow is here better-connected to imply the forward (left to right) 
> passage of time, such that the quantity
> 
>       → 15y 11m
> 
> will become 16 later in the current calendar year. On their birthday next 
> month, their age could be shown
> 
>       16y
> 
> and then
> 
>       16y + 1m
> 
> which is, I think, better. A person born January 1st 1998, instead of being 
> displayed 364 days of the year as
> 
>       01 Jan 1998 ← (16y …m)
> 
> could be more simply shown as
> 
>       01 Jan 1998 (16y + …m)
> 
> 
> -- Jim
>       
> 
> 



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