Bug 270657

Summary: Digital clock not readable in vertical panel
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: PallasBurko <rs205>
Component: widget-clockAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: asraniel, jlayt
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: broken clock in KDE SC 4.5.3
brocken clock in KDE SC 4.6.0
brocken clock in KDE SC 4.6.2

Description PallasBurko 2011-04-11 10:48:33 UTC 
Created attachment 58793 [details]
broken clock in KDE SC 4.5.3

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

I encountered a strange behaviour of my clock. I use a vertical panel in the right  side of the screen. But most of the time (not always) the clock gets hards shown. Only on some dates the clock and date is shown properly. The rest of the time there is just a bunch of pixels .

Removing and adding the clock does not change that behaviour.

I had the same behaviour in kde 4.5.3, 4.6.0 und 4.6.2. See the attached screenshot from panels of those three versions.

Please see also Bug 254161, which I consider related to this issue.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Add a vertical panel with some applets, add the digital clock and wait some days if needed until date or time which breaks the clock

Actual Results:  
The clock is unreadable

Expected Results:  
A Date and a time should be displayed sharp and correct

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop
Compiler: gcc

opensuse 11.4, KDE46 repo
Comment 1 PallasBurko 2011-04-11 10:49:03 UTC 
Created attachment 58794 [details]
brocken clock in KDE SC 4.6.0
Comment 2 PallasBurko 2011-04-11 10:49:25 UTC 
Created attachment 58795 [details]
brocken clock in KDE SC 4.6.2
Comment 3 PallasBurko 2011-04-11 10:53:38 UTC 
> I encountered a strange behaviour of my clock. I use a vertical panel in the
> right  side of the screen. But most of the time (not always) the clock gets
> hards shown. Only on some dates the clock and date is shown properly. The rest
> of the time there is just a bunch of pixels .

Excuse me for my bad spelling, I will proofread it twice next time.
Comment 4 PallasBurko 2011-05-05 15:23:15 UTC 
Suggested Workaround for it by Sebas: Disabling of timezone and/or Date. Also another clock style like analog clock might work.
Comment 5 John Layt 2011-05-27 19:43:21 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 252291 ***