Time calculation is broken in datetime panel plugin (patch)

andre at andreldm.com andre at andreldm.com
Mon Jun 20 20:51:30 CEST 2022


Hi,
I'm not aware of anyone working to fix that issue, which seems to be https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/58

Merge requests are welcome :)

Cheers,
Andre Miranda

Jun 20, 2022, 20:40 by chrhenz at gmx.de:

>
>
> On 20.06.22 20:03, andre at andreldm.com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Datetime plugin isn't deprecated, not yet, just unmaintained.
>> As part of GSoC 2022, clock plugin will receive new features which cover
>> all use cases only supported by datetime. After that the plan is to
>> deprecated and archive datetime.
>>
>> In the meantime, if you are interested, please send this patch as a
>> merge request (mention me), we can make a last release before deprecation.
>>
>
> Thanks for the info - I am not actually interested in the datetime
> plugin per se. I could not find the source for the clock plugin, but I
> found datetime and thought it was a replacement for clock. Thanks to
> Harald's hint, I have now found the clock plugin in the panel source tree.
>
> What I am *actually* interested in, and what I have now prototypically
> implemented in the datetime plugin is having the clock update
> immediately whenever my machine wakes up from sleep. Currently (at least
> on XFCE 4.16 which I am still running) it takes up to a minute for the
> timer to kick in and update the clock display.
>
> Is this something that is already being worked on for the clock plugin?
>
> Otherwise I could try to port my changes to the clock plugin and submit
> a patch there.
>
> Greetings,
> Christian
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