[Panel-devel] Text clock

[Dennis SCP]

As the code for the Kicker clock has been dumped I think its best to 
talk about the clock first. So this would be my description of the way 
a plasma clock should work:

The clock is recommended to always be international by default: 
2005-07-20-13:15

The clock can be (partially) selected like plain text and during 
dragging the user can choose notations with up and down arrows in the 
tool-tip window. Even though the clock may have been changed by the 
user from text to graphical the user should be able to grab plain text 
from it, for example by selecting through the clock face and the date 
underneath. The clock could simply be a two line text based date-time 
clock with time at the bottom in a larger font-size.

Here is an example of a tool-tip where the user has just selected and 
dragged the date from the plasma clock.

-- 
2005-07-20             (International or application) default

20-07-2005
7 Juli, 2005           (Local options)

07-02-2005             (US American)

??-????                (Religious calendar)

automatically current  (only supported applications)
-- 


The contextual menu would remain mostly the same but a calendar view as 
seen in the current kicker clock should be viewable from a Calendar 
item in the contextual menu as extra's should all be accessible in the 
same way to avoid doubt and confusion.

The copy to clipboard options from the current contextual menu take way 
to long as one must remember the target (Dutch or American 
documentation) and remember the rules of that notation before picking 
one from the uncategorized list. The tool-tip simply allows for more 
layout. And follows the users work-flow:

Select what you want to copy from the date-time clock, focus on the 
target and adjust notation only when realizing that adjustment is 
necessary, then simply pick from the category list.

The international default is recommended by all our governments to 
prevent disasters and a (Koffice) master document (sorry forgot the 
name) setting could adjust notation in flight. This would require 
data-pasting awareness by Koffice and similar applications.

So one selectable clock and all extra's and related accessed in one way 
(all from the contextual menu).