Bug 162828

Summary:	Digital clock has no blinking-dots option
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	John Horne <jhtrees99>
Component:	widget-clock	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jlayt, jowens.kde, KaiUweBroulik2, lcn.mustard, tim.bandelow
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description John Horne 2008-05-29 20:12:42 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.4)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
Compiler:          GCC 4.3.0 
OS:                Linux

The digital clock configuration used to have a 'blinking dots' option (under KDE 3) - which meant that the colon (:) separating the hour/minutes blinked once per second.
Fedora 9, with KDE 4.0.4 shows no such option. I used to set blinking dots because if the system hung then the blinking would stop - hence I could see that the system had hung. (I used this recently on my Fedora 8 PC at work.) Can we have the option put back please.


Thanks,

John.

Comment 1 J. Randall Owens 2009-08-20 08:23:09 UTC

Is it really that hard to confirm this?  I mean, whether or not you agree there should be such an option, you right-click the clock, Digital Clock Settings, and look for a "blinking dots" option, and it's not there.  It's been over a year now.

Comment 2 Tim Bandelow 2009-12-17 15:36:57 UTC

I'm also missing this option (currently using KDE 4.3.4).

Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-12-31 02:41:37 UTC

They have time for adding stupid shadow effects but not for those things. Not in 4.6.

Comment 4 lcn.mustard 2011-04-07 06:25:53 UTC

I'm  missing this option too

Comment 5 John Layt 2011-05-27 18:52:46 UTC

We have discussed this option on the plasma developers list and decided this option will not be added to the standard clock widget.

Comment 6 Kai Uwe Broulik 2011-05-28 00:29:24 UTC

It seems you like not to add useful or common features to the default plasmoids. Same goes for the taskbar where this gets even worse: No “icons only” view, no “close task with middle mouse button” etc