Clock and Datetime plugin merge

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Andrzej <ndrwrdck at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 09/03/15 02:02, André Miranda 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
>
>

> If you want to reduce maintenance burden, drop binary, fuzzy and LCD. They
> are all there only mostly "because we can" and IMHO are just bloat.
>
As far as I'm concerned, these are the very features I love about the
clock plugin (and thoroughly miss them in OrageClock).

Liviu


>> What only datetime has:
>> - Display date
>> - Set font
>
>
> Try the following custom formats:
>
> %a, %d/%m%n<b>%H:%M</b>
> <small>DE: %H:%M (%a)</small>
>
> More details about formatting commands:
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html
>
> Some features (e.g. font_face) don't seem to work here but overall the
> capabilities are pretty good.
>
>> What both lack:
>> - Set color(bug #9487)
>
> Available in the clock plugin via custom formats.
>
>> - Update time immediately after resume(bug #9785)
>
> Currently an update is forced once per minute and afaik there is no an easy
> way to change it without waking up the plugin more often. An easy workaround
> is to include seconds in the clock format.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrzej
>
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