Version: (using KDE 4.2.0) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages The digital clock plasmoid takes up a lot of unnecessary space in the panel (especially if one displays seconds). Most of the space is occupied because the font in which the time is rendered is very large. By allowing the user to select a size, the width of the plasmoid could be reduced considerably, allowing the user to fit more plasmoids in the panel.
it fills in the space it has. this is a purposeful design decision which makes the clock actually manageable as a freely resizable object.
Ah! If it's freely resizeable, then how do I resize it? There's obviously a trick I don't know about. Right now, my clock is occupying rather more than 4cm of the panel. Apart from the wasted space, the digits are so large as to be distracting. I need to shrink it somehow, but I haven't been able to find the way to do so.
The clock may be freely resizable, but it resized only according to the height of the panel and preserves aspect ratio. On tall panels this makes for an unacceptably huge clock. There is no way for the user to resize the clock nor change the font size (other than resizing the entire panel). There are other widgets suffer from the "take up as much space as possible and preserve aspect ratio" bug as well. The issue is more visible on a vertical panel. See this related bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167132
Here is another bug that suffers from the same "fill available space yet preserve aspect ratio" scenario: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187099
(In reply to comment #4) > Here is another bug that suffers from the same "fill available space yet > preserve aspect ratio" scenario: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187099 At least that one has the merit of not being marked RESOLVED/WONTFIX. How this can be marked in that manner unfortunately remains a mystery to me. As far as I can tell there is simply no way to get the clock small enough to be reasonably discreet. Users should be able to control the size of the panel clocks -- there is a wide variety of screen resolutions and probably just as many different opinions about what constitutes the "right" size, all of them valid. Personally, I think that a 4cm-wide clock looks simply obnoxious.
Here, this bug should cover the issue at hand and several others: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187767 > it fills in the space it has. this is a purposeful > design decision which makes the clock actually manageable > as a freely resizable object. The bug I link to basically requests that this "freely resizeable object" be resizable by the user, not just the panel.
Hello: The panel clock look is one of the things I don't like in KDE 4? For me it seems that KDE 4 is a dull descendant of KDE 3. A good example is the configurability of panel clock. In KDE 3 almost every details can be adjusted by the user: time and date font types and size independently. In KDE 4 the system decides the size of the clock according to the size of the panel, furthermore one can not change independently the time and date font sizes. I wish I could set panel clock lookout in KDE 4 as in KDE 3. Istvan