Bug 169130

Summary: Adjustable size on digital clock plasmoid
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Marcelo Vivan Borro <marcelovborro>
Component: widget-clockAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: chriswhy, jdmulloy, jlayt, kde, michal.vyskocil
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Digital Clock plasmoid wastes space on a vertical panel.

Description Marcelo Vivan Borro 2008-08-14 16:48:37 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

There should be a way to adjust the size of the numbers on the digital clock plasmoid.  It auto adjusts based on the height of the "new kicker", but when you choose a height that allows two lines of icons in the system tray, the clock stays too big.  The text part ( week day, year etc ) have a nice size.

I know it can't be font size based like asked in 157572, but there should be a size adjustment like: tiny/small/normal/big/huge so it could be resized no matter the height of kicker.
Comment 1 Lukas Middendorf 2009-01-17 01:25:26 UTC 
I tried using a smaller font (e.g. PakTypeNaqsh). Now there are unused borders on the left and right of the clock. This is quite suboptimal, as the clock itself now has a reasonable size, but it still takes more space than necessary.
Comment 2 Chris 2009-01-29 23:32:12 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 3 Chris 2009-01-29 23:34:07 UTC 
I set my clock to display 24-hour format, and it still takes up just as much horizontal space as it does with the 12-hour format. And to think I could have saved space on the bar if it wrapped. :(
Comment 4 Joe Mulloy 2009-02-06 21:28:14 UTC 
I'd like to add that it would be nice if when it's on the desktop I would like the ability to resize each dimension independently. The old aspect ratio was decent, late in the 4.2 beta cycle it was made more square and it wastes a lot of space above and below the text. I'll attach a screenshot later.
Comment 5 Oswald Buddenhagen 2009-02-11 00:57:52 UTC 
i think having a configurable maximum size for the contents would solve the problem.
Comment 6 Anthony Scire 2009-04-17 17:11:33 UTC 
Created attachment 32891 [details]
Digital Clock plasmoid wastes space on a vertical panel.
Comment 7 John Layt 2011-05-27 18:55:17 UTC 
We have discussed this option on the plasma developers list and decided this option will not be added to the standard clock widget.  Instead we will seek to resolve the issues with the auto-sizing code.