Thread: [Announce] SVGClock for Diablo
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shin is offline shin
2010-01-13 , 06:38
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#30
I agree with you on the N8x0 survivors.. Actually I am surprised how fast the tablet community became a minority here within a couple of months..

I joined the party late ( as you can see from my profile ), though I was lurking in these forums before deciding to jump in.. I was one of those people who thought Nokia was actually coming out with a superior 'internet tablet', as a sequel to the N810. Anyways I love my internet tablet/N810 and the various great apps the community has developed for it ( such as the Easy debian by qole, Penguinbait's boot from mmc card method, bunanson's world tv , t_moyashi's Quasar/Dillo etc - I know I am missing to mention other great apps here).

So it is this spirit of sharing that made me release this, not so complete applet to the community, created with what little knowledge I gathered with my spare time. Because I thought it would look good on your tablet!

I am hopeful that someone would help in the buffering/ pre-rendering query above ( yes the code is kind of 'messy' now), to better the clock performance and I plan to take it to Extras anyways with some clean up..

Having said that, you can see immediate performance improvement by disabling the second hand of the clock. This can be done by setting the "enable_seconds" parameter to "False" in /usr/lib/hildon-desktop/SVGClock.py, that is immediately after the 'import' section ( or cairoclock.py, if you used my original installation method):
Code:
# set this to False to disable display of seconds and update 
# only once per minute (saves CPU cycles on the tablet)
enable_seconds = True
Change this line as below to see immediate improvement in performance ( but the Seconds hand does not display any more)

Code:
# set this to False to disable display of seconds and update 
# only once per minute (saves CPU cycles on the tablet)
#enable_seconds = True
enable_seconds = False
Last edited by shin; 2010-01-13 at 15:49.
 

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