Thread: Flip clock pre pre pre pre release
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jolouis is offline jolouis
2009-10-13 , 18:08
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#655
Originally Posted by slartibart View Post
- In the night mode the parts of the digits not illuminated to make up the current time are a bit too bright. It would be nice if there was a bigger difference between lit up and dimmed lines.
I dont have the old one to compare with side by side but in general the look of the numbers in the night mode is not as pleasant as the old version. The numbers seem to be too close to eachother (look at how '10' shows for instance) and the previously mentioned dim vs lit up lines in the numbers.
Yea I just tweaked the digits yesterday to give it a bit more of that "underlying digit look", but I agree there's not quite enough strength there; general feedback, should I try them down at 10% (right now the "non-lit" digit parts are at about 30%), or just ditch it and go back to the way they used to be?.
Not sure about the positioning, as they're exactly the same as they were on the old clock... if it bugs you though you can tweak the theme file to shift the digits around a bit... if everyone agrees then I'll update the night theme by default to have a bit more space to it...

- I noticed that the icon for flipclock was not removed from my Extras section after uninstalling and hence the new version did not create a new entry. The old icon doesn't launch anything so my only way to launch flipclock now is to do it from the xterm's command line. How do I solve this?
Hmm that's bizarre... the old icon should actually launch the new version still, so not sure. You can try restarting the tablet to see if that clears it up, otherwise you can manually remove the .desktop file and install the new one, should fix it. Let me know if you need a hand.

- Any chance for having the color picker being its own button instead of on the single/loop button?
Oh bugger! I forgot that was still there, I thought I'd taken that button out! Turns out I only took the "label" out, not the thing that actually triggered the colour picker! Okay I'll do a quick update to take that out as the colour picker is supposed to be on the "yet to be built" clock-settings page!

Apart from that it looks like this will be a fantastic update and THANKS for continuing working on one of my favorite apps for my tablet.

Nokia should send you an N900 so that 'those boys' can get this app finetuned for them as well since this app is so valuable. Do it Nokia!
I'm all for that ;-) Already trying to get my hands on an N900 through the PushN900 program, but we'll see... in the mean time I think one or two people who've already got prototypes have contacted me in the past about this app so I'll see what they say about this new version...

Thanks for the feedback!