Notices

I assume you mean the far left icon? Or I guess it's on the tablet's right... I'm too user-centric!

Once you have too many applets selected to fit in the tray, it drops off to another layer. The leftmost applets fall off. So to control which applets fall off, you just move them to the left end.

To do that, open the Control panel, select Panels, and go to the Status bar tab. Here you can check and uncheck applets, as well as reorder them by a less-than-intuitive method. Select the icon in the list box, then use the /\ and \/ buttons to move it up or down in the list. Up is right, down is left. So just move what you want on the second tier down to the bottom of the list. And if the clock starts on the bottom, move it towards the top.

But an important detail: when applets fall off into the second tier, the direction is reversed! So the two clock halves would have to be in the opposite order if you were put them down there. (I know that's not what you said, but if someone does scoot the clock down, they should know...)

Thanks for making this; I've wanted this since reading that TabletUI Blog post as well.

- just finishing configuring the clock...

- the 24-hour mode nicely solves (at least superficially) a long-standing problem with the NIT's OS: Namely, Nokia's insistence that 24-hour mode be based on region...

- one suggested workaround by a bugzilla poster was to edit /etc/osso-af-init/locale and reboot after editing in:

export LC_TIME=de_DE

(this did allow display of 24-hour mode, but introduced other subtle probs, such as use of German names for days of the week in calendaring and other apps)

- so a *BIG* thank you for bringing some sanity to our UI!

:-)

linux_author: I was considering making 24 hour mode region-based, but I think I will leave it as it is (although more easy to configure). Thanks for the comment.

First of all, I want to thank you for writing this app. Having a readable clock on the statusbar is a terrific improvement to the tablet.

I agree completely. The applet doesn't need to be overloaded with CPU graphs or other unrelated features.

The alarm feature in Maemo is pretty weak. As it is, the clock is a big improvement. A logical next step would be a day/date display from a single click on the clock.

An interface to the existing alarm would be good, and a better alarm application would be great.

One way of saving the precious real estate on the statusbar would be to change the time display when an alarm is set instead of having a separate icon showing the alarm clock. For example, the numerals could be shown in a box, or underlined, or the numbers could be a different color (red or bright yellow) if an alarm is set.

I have updated the first post in this thread with a download for the next version of statusbar-clock. Improvements are mostly to do with a popup menu. Thanks everyone for all the suggestions!

would it be possible to gain some free real estate by moving the icons closer together?

i like the idea of changing the colour of the clock display if an alarm is set. no need for a redundant icon. another method might be to put a couple of ellipses above the A or P to indicate the alarm sound.

getting rid of the leading zero on the 12 hour clock would look better though it wouldn't solve much of the 'space' problem.

i replaced the osso-statusbar-cpu icon with the clock. the view of the efforts the cpu was going to was interesting but didn't lead me to any new way of using the nit to relieve the work the cpu needed to do.

john

john,

Unfortunately statusbar plugins have a fixed width that cannot (as far as I know) be changed, so I cannot move them closer together.

I just updated the plugin to remove the leading zero in 12 hour mode, but you are correct - this does not make it take up any less room.

It's nice to hear people are actually using this plugin.

fiferboy:

the site you set up (andrew.olmsted.ca) still has the old version of the clock. (a few minutes ago anyway)

i installed the new version and i like the appearance without the 0. i notice though that the 24 hour clock still reserves room for the A or P. a little squinching could happen if that space were removed.

the pop up menu works great too, though i would prefer it to offer a choice between set /forget an alarm and the whole world clock page.

thanks for your efforts at making the nit a better tool.

john

john,

The site should be updated now. I did the update a few minutes after I posted, so you may have looked before it.

24 hour does not really reserve room for the A or P - it just uses the same size font and there is nothing to go after it. The minute plugin is aligned to the far left of the available space so there is no gap between hours and minutes. It is just a bonus that the A or P fits in without have to resize.

I think the alarm notification is a great idea, thanks to everyone who mentioned it. I am looking at the documentation for the alarm interface and would like to (if possible) have a visual indicator that an alarm is set and an option in the popup menu to bring up the alarm window.