[Panel-devel] [PATCH] digiclock: Plain Clock mode et al

[Robert Knight]

Hi,

Something that strike me on my recent travel to Boston - finding the
appropriate time zone in an unfamiliar city is not very easy in KDE 3.
 Is it possible to determine this information using an available
internet connection (in a hotel or conference venue for example)?

Regards,
Robert.

On 11/11/2007, Robert Knight <robertknight at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've made a screenshot on http://vizzzion.org/tmp/plainclock.png
>
> Thanks for looking at this.  It is a start, the user interface is
> messy at the moment.
>
> Some suggestions for the user interface:
>
> * Separate out the options which affect the time shown (eg. the
> timezone) from those which affect the appearance of the clock.  The
> KDE 3 clock applet uses tabs for this (right click on the KDE 3 clock
> -> Configure Clock).  You could use either tabs or the KDE page widget
> (the HIG should provide guidance on which is the more appropriate
> choice)
> * Make the 'plain' style the default appearance, as it is the more
> readable choice.  I think that if the digital clock applet is to have
> multiple styles then a graphical display of the different styles is
> needed to make the difference clear.
> By "graphical display", I mean along the lines of:
> http://boiko.rallyzeiros.com.br/?p=23
>
> Some suggestions with regards to the available options for information
> to show in the clock:
>
> * Week-day
> * More date formats ( I think the kdelibs classes should make it easy
> to display a few good options.  The current format  in the screenshot
> ( DD / (Short Month) / YYYY ) strikes me as a good default choice.
>
> Right now the "train-station" display does not work correctly in any
> case because the background of the SVG graphic elements which form the
> numbers do not fit in with the applet background correctly.
>
> Regards,
> Robert.
>
>
> On 11/11/2007, Sebastian Kuegler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> > On the Krush page, there is a wish to make the digiclock more
> configurable.
> > I
> > worked on this last night and this afternoon, the result is the attached
> > patch. (I've left out the patch to the .ui File since it makes this email
> > way
> > to big, find the full thing at
> > http://vizzzion.org/tmp/plainclock-fullpatch.diff
> >
> > I've made a screenshot on http://vizzzion.org/tmp/plainclock.png
> >
> > Here's a description of the patch:
> >
> > * Remove m_contentSize: there's contentSize() now
> > * Remove some comments (probably very old and far from valid)
> > * Add "Show Date" option to configuration dialogue
> > * Introduce Plain Clock style, with configuration options for
> >         * Font face
> >         * Font color
> >         * Font bold and/or italic
> >
> > Open issues:
> >         * KColorcombo crashes sometimes, and it doesn't show colors in
> >           the dropdown (but does show the selected colors)
> >         * Saving QColor to KConfig is apparently not supported
> >         * How do I save plasma's config from plasmoidviewer?
> >         * The pixmap cache appears to be too small for the SVG pieces
> >
> >
> > It would be cool if someone could have a look at this patch before I
> commit
> > it.
> > --
> > sebas
> >
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