cosmetic suggestions for xfce

[Serge Matveenko]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Antonis Tsolomitis
<antonis.tsolomitis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Goodies for panel: From all three desktops (KDE, Gnome, XFCE) a simple
> goodie is missing. I refer to the possibility to know the current date
> by just looking at the panel. This existed, I believe, in older xfce and
> existed in CDE. Orage has already a nice icon that could be used
> for such a purpose. (see for example the icon at
> http://www.xfce.org/projects/orage/). I know that there is a balloon
> that says the date. I also know that you can configure some of the
> clocks to show the date. But I talk about cosmetic changes here. And
> these solutions are (to my opinion) ugly. Usually people know the
> current year :-) and the current month (unless maybe very close to the
> change of month). So an applet showing only the day, say 28, or the day
> and month, say Jan 28, with a design like the icon of orage above, is
> what I talk about.

there is orage time applet for xfce panel that could replace simple
time applet and could be configured to show everything you want.
for example one could have two lines in this applet with this data:
13:18:22 MSK
23.01.2009 5
that is in condig:
%X %Z
%x %w
and looks very fine with fixed size Terminus font


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