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

[Sebastian Kuegler]

On Sunday 11 November 2007 20:22:05 Robert Knight 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)

I've put the options in a tabwidget for now, it already looks quite a bit 
cleaner (and similar to the KDE 3 dialogue).

> * 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

I've committed it as default face for now, but I'm not sure if this complies 
with the artistic vision. We might also want to fix up the SVG style a bit 
more. Right now, it looks a bit jagged in my setup. Also, the line between 
the letters is a bit small, so the digits don't line up perfectly. A bigger 
gap makes it harder to read, though. Needs to be fixed in the SVG.

By the way, I recall reading something about a plasma colorscheme, specific to 
the plasma theme in use. I couldn't find anything like this, if someone could 
point me at it, cool.

> 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.

Ok, I'll have a look at it.

> 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.

Those 'digit parts' have a slightly lighter background. I find it quite 
snazzy, actually.

Thanks for the comment,
-- 
sebas

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