Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 145417
Clock enhancement suggestion
Last modified: 2008-03-20 00:21:22 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The clock application displays a small clock in the task bar with the date and time. I'd like to be able to have a preference setting to specify a string to use as the format string used by strftime. Also, I'd like a new substitution variable that will put in the username of the logged on user. The reason for this is that I log onto many different user ids on the system and it would be a nice little feature to display the user id in a consistent place. A string I might use: [$u] %a %d %b, %H:%M %p The $ variables would be resolved before giving the string to strftime which will handle all the % variables. In my example $u would be substituted for the logged on user id/name. It would be nice to be able to set this globally, but I suppose if I had to set it once for each user, that's acceptable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.8.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reproducabilty doesn;t really apply... this is a suggestion for a new feature. 2. 3. Additional info:
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Changed from FC3 to FC5, changed software version to Clock 2.14.2 Suggestions still apply, Thanks.
Thank you!
Fedora Core 5 is no longer maintained. Is this bug still present in Fedora 8? If it is still present please update the version field and file this bug in upstream GNOME bugzilla http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
Hi, We no longer support Fedora Core 5 and I am currently trying to get my open bug count down to a more manageable state. I'm going to close this bug as WONTFIX. If this issue is still a concern for you, would you mind trying to reproduce on a supported version of Fedora and reopening? (this is a mass message)
Sorry for not getting back sooner... Yes, still applies to Fedora 8 - I changed the version number above. Also: gnome-applets-2.20.1-1.fc8 It is rather low priority though. But I'd like to leave it open... might be a good exercise for somebody new to Fedora contributing... I'm sure I could do it... I just don't know the process of getting the source code etc. (hint: if you can tell me that, I can probably send you a diff file or something. Would that help?)
Hi Don, So you can get the current username on your panel by adding the "User Switcher" applet. I don't think exposing format strings to the user in the preferences dialog would be very user friendly. It might make sense to expose it in GConf. Either way, this would probably be better filed upstream so it can get more eyes on it. Would you mind doing that? If you'd rather me file it upstream, I'd be happy to.
If you can tell me where "upstream" is... I can do it. But probably in the time it takes to explain it to me, you could have it done. :-) I agree with you about exposing format strings... I'd probably want a "build format string" function where I could pick/choose the format I want, and let the format string get built behind the scenes. Sort of like in MS Excel when formating a cell as a date... it let's you select some predefined things, or "custom" and then there are "tokens" that represent the actual value you want. i.e d is day of month with no leading zero, ddd if three letter day, dddd is full day spelled out in full, etc.
Upstream is here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org
OK... I'll do that. (Probably tonight) Then I'll cross reference it here, and close this. Cheers, Don
Filed upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523502