Bug 209458

Summary:	Marble satellite view should show current local times
Product:	[Applications] marble	Reporter:	Philip Webb <purslow>
Component:	general	Assignee:	marble-bugs
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nienhueser
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	some future version
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Philip Webb 2009-10-04 23:12:09 UTC

Version:           4.3.1 (using KDE 4.3.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

Kworldclock in 3.5.10 shows current day/night zones & current local time for selected cities.  Marble 4.3.1 using satellite view + sun shading shows day/night zones,
but there is no way to show current local times.  I am using the fullscale Marble on a Fluxbox desktop, not the plasmoid on the KDE 4 desktop.  It is very useful for many people to have a quick way to determine the current local time in major cities or in timezones: I used Kworldclock 3.5.10 recently to decide when to phone someone in New Zealand from Canada.  It should not be difficult to add this function to Marble given that the information about local times is available in any normal Linux machine.

Comment 1 Dennis Nienhüser 2009-11-12 22:23:40 UTC

Could be implemented in a plugin, I'd say.

Alternatively, have you tried starting the world clock plasma widget using plasmoidviewer? Running

plasmoidviewer worldclock

starts it as a standalone application here. I didn't try that from the outside of KDE, but you could give it a try in fluxbox.

Comment 2 Philip Webb 2009-11-12 23:41:32 UTC

I tried it in Fluxbox & got

  691: ref> plasmoidviewer worldclock
    bash: plasmoidviewer: command not found

What would I have to install (on Gentoo) to get this command ?

Comment 3 Dennis Nienhüser 2009-11-13 13:27:03 UTC

I think it is part of plasma-workspace [1], can you give that a try?

[1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/kde-base/plasma-workspace

Comment 4 Philip Webb 2009-11-14 00:02:26 UTC

I installed 'plasma-workspace' & now I get a small empty window.
Clearly, I need to emerge another package to get 'worldclock' for 4.3.1 :
do you have any idea which of the numerous KDE packages it might be in ?

Comment 5 Dennis Nienhüser 2009-11-14 01:34:58 UTC

I'd say it gets installed by kde-base/marble if you emerge it with the plasma USE flag enabled.

Once installed, 
plasmoidviewer --list
will list it (among other plasma widgets):
worldclock - Shows the time in different parts of the world

Comment 6 Philip Webb 2009-11-14 02:25:32 UTC

I re-merged Marble with  USE="plasma" , but there's no change;
'worldclock' was already listed among available widgets before that.
I tried opening Marble before doing 'plasmoidviewer', but no difference.
Are there any other KDE items which would need the 'plasma' USE flag ?
-- when I installed KDE 4.3.1 , it was to get the various apps,
but with no intention of using the desktop,
so I didn't add 'plasma' to make.conf .

I'm quite willing to test this, but I'ld say it remains the better option
to add local times to the Marble globe itself, their natural place.