[kde-linux] KDE 4.7.3 and the clock being cut off

[Dale]

Duncan wrote:
> Dale posted on Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:48:12 -0600 as excerpted:
>
>> I noticed after a recent upgrade that my clock is being weird.  When I
>> click on the clock to pull up the calender, the right hand side is cut
>> off.  I thought maybe it was just that it was going off screen so I
>> moved it to the left a bit.  It still cuts off Saturday.  I can see the
>> other days of the week but Saturday is gone.  I would like to have
>> Saturday back.  I do have my fonts set to a bit larger than defaults.
>>
>> Does anyone else notice this?
> Can't say I've noticed it, but then again, my "clock" is part of the
> giant superkaramba theme I integrated all of the individual smaller
> themes into.  I don't even have a clock plasmoid running any more, by
> default.  (I have a hotkey set to run "plasmoidviewer calendar", which
> gives me the calendar plasmoid in a separate popup window invoked by
> hotkey when I need it, so don't miss that bit of functionality from the
> clock plasmoids either...)
>
> I suppose I should upload another screenshot somewhere, one of these
> days, but my ISP sent me an email saying it's shutting down the
> previously provided webspace (after shutting down their newsserver,
> funny, they didn't lower their prices in exchange for the lower level of
> service, but I /am/ seriously considering downgrading to a lower tier of
> service, thereby lowering what I pay anyway), and I really don't use it
> /that/ much, so haven't bothered looking elsewhere for hosting.  I guess
> the other thing I could do would be to ignore the no-server thing and
> host it myself... on a high-range port, of course.  That'd even give me
> an excuse to buy a pogoplug or similar new toy to always-on host it.
>
> Meanwhile, I'm thinking about trying 4.8-beta1, aka 4.7.80 (or even the
> -9999 live-ebuilds, but for some reason I didn't see one for kdelibs,
> last I checked, which was strange) but haven't, yet.  Now that I'm
> running something else for mail and am thus kmail-less, kdepim-less and
> akonadi-less, plus USE=-semantic-desktop, I'm not so worried about it
> destroying a decade plus of mail, etc, as I was with kmail, and I figure
> I can either live with or simply revert if necessary, for any other bugs
> the beta might throw my way.
>
> Meanwhile, the point I'm making with the superkaramba clock comment above
> is that simply stating "clock" isn't sufficient information to try to
> duplicate it, unless someone just happens to have a similar setup and to
> have seen it.  Which clock plasmoid, digital, analog, fuzzy, binary,
> maybe a different clock plasmoid from kdelook, or a superkaramba theme
> (which), or...?  Is it on the desktop or a panel?  If it's on the
> desktop, what size, approximately, and where (I'm assuming to the right
> given the info you did provide, but...)?  If it's on a panel (since that
> sets the plasmoid size when they're in a panel), what size of panel,
> where's the panel docked, and again, what location in the panel?  Also,
> what plasma/workspace theme are you using, as that can make a big
> difference in some aspects of plasmoid behavior, and just what font and
> font size are you talking.  Finally, font size isn't a complete
> description unless we also know what DPI you're running at and/or whether
> it's configured properly on your display (xorg reads it from the EDID,
> but if that's incorrect, as it is for some displays...).
>
> With out even most of that information, just a reasonable sampling of it,
> I'd have a shot at installing the appropriate plasmoid and checking the
> behavior here, but without it, it'd be like a random shot in the dark,
> which is more or less what I just did anyway, making the probably
> ridiculous assumption that you're running a superkaramba clock as I am,
> so my results are comparable to yours.  But given the information you
> provided and the fact that I'm running a superkaramba theme clock so
> reporting no problems with it here was no additional work for me, and
> given that I'm so far from the defaults I can't even remember for sure
> what they are so I can't really make a good shot at that, my report was
> as good a shot in the dark as any.
>

This is what I don't like about KDE4.  They have all these weird names 
for things. < sighs >

The clock is digital and is located on the little panel on the bottom.  
I pretty much have a default install other than making the fonts a 
little larger.  I got new glasses but anyway.  I'm not sure what else to 
say to describe it.  It's a clock with numbers on it.  lol  When I click 
it, a calender pops up.  It was there when I first logged into KDE, even 
back in the KDE3 days.

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I attached a picture of the 
thingy.  Notice how Saturday is missing?  I miss Saturday.  Maybe the 
picture will help better than me trying to describe things I don't know 
the names of.  You know how I call things "thingy".  LOL

Dale

:-)  :-)

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