Re: [Announce] binaryclock
 

Actually, I don't know whether it's open source or not.
But as I already started with this version in Python I prefer to extend my own version.
One of the benefits of Python as an interpreted language probably is that development and testing on the N900 itself is really straight forward. ;)

Alright, I already have a more general version in development.
I'll open another thread for discussing this version.

That's indeed a good idea.
I'll call it "Advanced Clock Plugin".

Well, I'll focus my work on a single version for now.
This of course will be the advanced clock plugin.
I don't think it's worth to rip it apart and package things separately.

I'll add this to my to-do list.
Though, I don't know whether I find the time to implement this.

Well, as you saw the code I think you noticed this project is in a very early stage.
In order to start the Advanced Clock Plugin I did a major refactoring of the code etc.
As a result the Advanced Clock Plugin is now dynamically extendable with custom clock styles. :)

Also not to forget: thanks a lot for the really helpful input Mentalist Traceur. :)

Edit: you can find the Advanced Clock Plugin thread under the following URL:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=903590

Re: [Announce] binaryclock
 

I like Python for the same reason. When I learn it, I won't have to bother setting up scratchbox to do the actual basic stuff. Will probably have to figure it out when sending stuff into the autobuilder, but it's a long way between me learning python and me being good enough to code a useful program.

Wonderful. :) Makes me happy to see you already had the idea in mind, so my suggestion didn't make you take up too much of your time.

Yeah, development wise that's probably a good idea. In the meantime, I'd push your current version (of Advanced Clock Plugin) into Extras-Testing, actually. Near as I can tell it's perfectly fine, doesn't seem to mess up anything in status-menu.plugins, and runs good in my opinion. Hopefully there's also more testers down there who don't run so many devel things that they can get more accurate test results for, say, battery consumption.

Well, it's something I've been intending to make happen, and if anything, it's one of the first things on my todo list after I learn enough python to make it happen... So if I can become useful quickly enough, I will be happy to send you a patch.

I saw the code, doesn't mean I understood it enough to know if it's good/bad, elegant/inefficient, simple/complex, etc. :)

A wonderful idea, which has added yet another thing to inspire me to learn Python. And as you may have noticed from the thread on Advanced Clock Plugin (like the name choice btw :)) I already have an idea for what this can become in the long term if this gets really popular, and a custom Clock Style for including both the time and extra system info (Which before couldn't really be conveniently fitted into the status bar because the icon size you could use was limited, where-as your python code seems to indicate the clock slot can be dynamically resized easily).

Anyway, I'm glad you liked my idea.

Re: [Announce] binaryclock
 

Hey, I can understand binary, but it takes a while, so can anyone here actually decipher the time as quickly as they can by looking at a digital clock widget or something?

Re: [Announce] binaryclock
 

Me and perhaps Mr. Spock. But I admit I have problems to read Gray-Codes! Did you?

Re: [Announce] binaryclock
 

Yeah, but as I said before, it takes me a while to decipher the time from the binary clock anyway, as I can't say I use binary all that often lol :D