Configuring time and date from context menu of digital-clock applet

[David Nolden]

Am Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009 17:54:24 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> > PS: By the way, there is a bug about time configuration. By default,
> > update interval of digital-clock plasmoid is 60 seconds when showSeconds
> > is false, and 1 second if it's true. If you change time from clock kcm
> > and showSeconds is false, digital-clock applet refreshes itself 1 minute
> > later. Maybe updateInterval should be hardcoded as 1 second regardless of
> > showSeconds variable.
>
> waking up 60x more often than necessary is a really good way to reduce
> battery life. the clock doesn't update once a minute just because it's lazy
> ;)
>
> as Daniel points out, the correct solution is a dbus signal (probably from
> kded4) that we can listen to.
There is a much more common issue then when changing the time from kcm: When 
waking up from suspend, the clock shows the time when the computer was 
suspended instead of the current one, for avg. half a minute. This makes a 
buggy appearance to the user, and is annoying. So should you decide to listen 
to a signal instead of updating more often, don't forget also listening for 
Solid::resumed() or something like that.

Greetings, David