Clock and Datetime plugin merge

[Steve Dodier-Lazaro]

To me the whole "set your font / font colour" approach seems like "we don't
read your GTK+ theme properly". I can't think of a time when I needed to
change my clock font (albeit I'll admit to it being more useful for
datetime).

André, try and get in touch with the Design SIG people for the settings UI.
I can't work on any FOSS until the 15th but Simon might be able to help?

Nick, I agree my approach to fixing this bug is quite ugly... The patch is
available for those who're bothered, though.

XFPM maintainers, can XFPM reliably (e.g. also on *BSD) inform processes
that the computer has been resumed? That'd allow getting the information
through without causing 59 interrupts like my solution?

On 9 March 2015 at 08:05, Nick Schermer <nick at xfce.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:02 AM, André Miranda <andreldm1989 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > As I have already proposed the merge of datetime and clock plugin on
> > #xfce-dev, here is a comparison between them:
> >
> > What only clock has:
> > - Timezone field
> > - Multiple layouts:
> >   - Digital, same as datetime
> >   - Analog
> >   - Binary
> >   - Fuzzy
> >   - LCD
> >
> > What only datetime has:
> > - Display date
> > - Set font
> >
> > What both have:
> > - Format of tooltip
> > - Display time :)
> > - Display a calendar
> >
> > What both lack:
> > - Set color(bug #9487)
> > - Update time immediately after resume(bug #9785)
> >
> > These plugins are very similar, so users get confused and it's more code
> to
> > maintain.
> > So, I'd like to step up and merge them, actually taking the features of
> > datetime(display date and set font) into clock.
> > But before I start hacking, I'd like to hear your thoughts on this
> matter.
> > Are there maintainer for these plugins?
>
> I know the color only works with the digital+span format, but are we
> not over engineering [bloat] something stupid as a clock?
>
> Bug 9785 is the wrong approach. For some time we tried to fix unneeded
> wake-up events and now we're undoing that? Auke will be pissed ;)
>
> Nick
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Steve Dodier-Lazaro
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