SUMMARY Commit in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/414 removed the option to switch timezone using wheel. I was a great fan of this feature and in my opinion while it fixed original bug 428096, this introduced a massive regression for me (and others who were using these option). I work with colleagues who are in 3 different timezones, so some meetings as well as events are generally scheduled in different timezones, and accordingly I decide what clock to show at a time. For example, During work hours, I set clock to Berlin time, if I have some event (Recent Wayland goal meeting for example) then I set it to UTC. New option of the switching timezone by the Clock settings is simply not initiative. It requires me to go through 5 different steps where I could previously do this with simple mouse scroll. - Right click on digital clock - Digital clock settings - Timezone - Select option - Apply This is just needless extra work and yes I can see the time in the tooltip, but I much prefer it to be visible in panel rather then it showing up only when I hover mouse over it. This may seem super insignificant for people who are mostly interacting with 1 timezone but for others this makes it much much annoying.
Why not have three clocks in the panel, one per timezone? Personally I have a global shortcut (Meta+C) attached to my clock popup and whenever I need to see what time it is in Berlin, I just hit that shortcut and look at the popup. and Meta+C is easy to hit with one hand on my keyboard so it's fast. I'm open to re-adding the removed feature if necessary, but I'd like to make sure we don't regress things too much with respect to Bug 428096.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/599
Git commit a699acd3ff3e831212fb7c27c183e0056bf69821 by Nate Graham. Committed on 27/01/2021 at 21:27. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. [applets/digital clock] Restore scroll-to-change-displayed-timezone After the rest of the UI changes made to the applet and the time zone config page, I don't think users will be confused by the differences between the timezone displayed in the clock, and the systemwide local timezone anymore. Therefore, it should be safe enough to bring back the wheely time feature. M +4 -0 applets/digital-clock/package/contents/config/main.xml M +37 -0 applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml M +14 -2 applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/configTimeZones.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/a699acd3ff3e831212fb7c27c183e0056bf69821
Git commit 51d1c4f89ace19f355bf0b7a07b9fbe7b0620e58 by Nate Graham. Committed on 27/01/2021 at 21:33. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.21'. [applets/digital clock] Restore scroll-to-change-displayed-timezone After the rest of the UI changes made to the applet and the time zone config page, I don't think users will be confused by the differences between the timezone displayed in the clock, and the systemwide local timezone anymore. Therefore, it should be safe enough to bring back the wheely time feature. (cherry picked from commit a699acd3ff3e831212fb7c27c183e0056bf69821) M +4 -0 applets/digital-clock/package/contents/config/main.xml M +37 -0 applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml M +14 -2 applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/configTimeZones.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/51d1c4f89ace19f355bf0b7a07b9fbe7b0620e58