Notices

horrible might be a little strong.

the stacking of the am or pm over the minutes is an interesting way to save space. can you stack an alarm icon over the A or P in a similar fashion?

I am working on the alarm notification, but I haven't made much progress. There doesn't seem to be a way that I can find to launch the alarm dialog box without going through worldclock. worldclock does not have source code anywhere I can find either, so it looks like I will have to create a dialog and populate it using the alarmd functions.

For this release (0.0.3) I added a configuration dialog to allow the user to select font (family, size, style) and font colour. The colour is just a dropdown with some colour names in it until I can find a more graceful way to do it (colour chooser seems to have some problems, at least in scratchbox)

I just created a garage project for statusbarclock (called "Large Statusbar Clock" in the description)

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/statusbarclock/

The latest release is uploaded there along with the source. I will update the first post in this thread.

Until I installed this... I never really knew how much I missed PanelClock from the OS2007 days.

Anyway, just two nagging things I've noticed.

One - on reboot the font size changes I've made don't persist
Two - Ok/Cancel are switched between the Pick a Font dialog and the Config StatusBar Clock dialog.

Keep up the great work.

gerbick,

Thanks for the feedback. To be honest, I don't change the font from the default, so I didn't notice the reboot problem. I should be able to switch the button order on the configure dialog to match the font dialog.

Awesome! I just have no words to describe my feelings! Thank you very much for reading my blog and making such a great applet! That's the power of Community!

wazd,

Thanks for the idea! I'm glad people are finding it useful and there haven't been any issues.

It looks beautiful. And I'm incredibly impressed that you've managed to integrate the date.

So I was wondering... Will the date in the drop down screen eventually come in a darker font? It looks like 15% grey on my screen.

If you *do* integrate an alarm function, is there any way to add a 'weekdays' function? I've noticed that you can only set Clock for repeating daily or weekly. But how 'bout workdays? Nothing like being woken up early on a Saturday morning (twice) by a forgotten alarm to remind me of this lacking feature :-P

I was always surprised (and a bit POed) that the application designers didn't think of us poor schmucks who work Monday-Friday. Unless, of course, the application designers actually *do* work seven days a week... .

Whoah. What an awful thought.

Great application already, though. Makes my screen much prettier for the background photo.

A few minutes later I have this:


Have attached the code amendments and compiled progs, just disable the plugins and copy the *.so files to /usr/lib/hildon-desktop/

Hope you don't mind fiferboy despite arguments against, I prefer the stacked look. Of course this way you can also replace AM/PM with the current day MO/TU/WE/TH/FR/SA/SU


Changes:
Separate font customization for hours and minutes so you can have a different colour for the hour if you wish.
"Longhorn" menu selection item.
"Longhorn" mode - [basically stacks the minutes on top of AM/PM, and disables the hour-colon.]

Wow! This is really great, and such a neat trick to use two plugins. I can't believe how great it looks; with the default settings, it fits in perfectly with the other panel icons.