| Summary: | Default analogue clock very difficult to read | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] plasma4 | Reporter: | Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08> |
| Component: | widget-analogclock | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | andresbajotierra, lex.lists, wstephenson |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Screenshot showing default clock on default panel in KDE 4.2.2 | ||
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Description
Dotan Cohen
2009-04-20 14:36:20 UTC
Created attachment 32952 [details]
Screenshot showing default clock on default panel in KDE 4.2.2
Related bugs: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165199 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165416 Should not my fix on bug 165199 solves this ? Thanks No, Darío, it does not solve this. The wider clock hands certainly help, but tell me, on a 129 DPI monitor (quite standard on laptops) or even a 90 DPI monitor (standard for desktops), can you read the clock in the screenshot from a comfortable distance from the screen? Wow, my last comment looks rude! Your work is very much appreciated, Darío, but the issue persists! Maybe implementing bug #187767 would solve this. Dotan, I don't understand what solution you are suggesting. The longest the minute hand could be on the analog clock is 1/2 the panel height. The largest the diameter of the clock could is the height of the panel. Without increasing the size of the panel, what else could be done? > The longest the minute hand could be on the analog clock
> is 1/2 the panel height.
And so it should be exactly that height! Furthermore, there should be no chrome on the clock in the limiting direction (no vertical chrome on horizontal panels, and no horizontal chrome in vertical panels). The hour hand should be thicker than the minute hand, and no longer than 2/3 it's length (only 1/2 it's length for very small clocks).
This is how to make a clock readable! Doubly important at small sizes!
> What |Removed |Added
> Severity|normal |wishlist
Why was this moved to wishlist? Because I posted a possible solution? The default analogue clock is unreadable in the default panel, unless that was the intention of the programmer this is a bug.
Perhaps a separate draw method that does not render SVG could be used at small panel sizes, to render a 'pixel perfect' analogue clock in this case. Hello! This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable. Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging Thanks for your understanding! Nate Graham |