[Users] Bug? in V3.8.1

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:19:00 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <info.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:56:16 +0100
> Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian.sk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:43:01 +0000
> > Abrolag <abrolag at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 11:52:41 +0000
> > > Abrolag <abrolag at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > When setting up a processing rule I tired to set age greater
> > > > than 1500 (approx 4 years) but when trying to add it this
> > > > changed to 1000.
> > > > 
> > > > However, I can change the completed entry to what I want and
> > > > replace it.
> > > 
> > > Nobody had this?
> > > 
> > > Nobody interested?
> > > 
> > 
> > It is only a limitation of that particular UI spinner widget. I have
> > increased it now, next release will have it at 10000 days. Hopefully
> > that will be enough. :)
> 
> Is there a valid reason to limit it?
> In a few days I likely become 48 years old, I'm a musician so
> 10000/365=27years, 27 years + 48 years = 75 years, this likely is
> more than enough for my expected lifespan.
> Anyway, some people are under 18 years old and they are living
> straight edge, even while they are musicians too, they likely have a
> much longer lifespan. Assumed some of those kids should use Claws too
> and one day they want to search a few things that were between 30
> years and 2 years in the past ...?
> I'm not kidding. My generation skims through photo albums and then we
> try to find old friends by the Internet. The young generation likely
> will search their mails, when they are old and perhaps (perhaps not)
> they have a clue about the decades of emails they should search.
> You know, the Bible and other books wrote about historic events
> hundreds of years after they happened, that's why human kind lost much
> real historical information. We reached another level and even while
> the assumption that nobody will use our kind of computers and maybe
> also not Claws any more in a few decades,
Oops ... likely is true
> I don't understand why
> limiting such a value is ok. Limit it to the expected time when the
> sun will "burn out" ;)!

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