SUMMARY When the panel is in vertical layout, the clock becomes illegible. Adding a vertical option to display the hours above the minutes would be very handy. (See attachment.) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. 2. 3. OBSERVED RESULT No way to change layout. EXPECTED RESULT Have option in the Digital Clock to have a vertical layout. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.84 Qt Version: 5.15.2
Created attachment 140224 [details] Digital clock in vertical panel
Just noticed this bug myself. Setting a manual font size in the "Text Display" setting in "Configure Digital Clock" does not fix the issue (or seem to make any changes at all). Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.0-6-amd64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11
*** Bug 481915 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 483311 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Confirmed still in Plasma 6 Operating System: Fedora 40 KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Graphics Platform: Wayland
*** Bug 485775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 494736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 174898 [details] Largeness: 50
My issue is that there's a bunch of empty space that makes the date barely legible. I want to make both the clock and the date to touch the borders of the panel for better legibility.
That's caused by the Digital Clock widget appearing between two Margins Separators widgets. You can remove or move them to give it more space. Regardless, that's unrelated to the request here, which is to make the time display better, not the date.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #10) > That's caused by the Digital Clock widget appearing between two Margins > Separators widgets. You can remove or move them to give it more space. > Regardless, that's unrelated to the request here, which is to make the time > display better, not the date. Then my bug becoming a duplicate of this one was a mistake.
Indeed, re-opening it.
+1 Can the fix be prioritized? Perhaps, as a short term solution, a setting could be added to display the hour above the minute? Also submitted an issue report for a longer term solution: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497503
I do notice that the Icons-only Task Manager widget seems to overlap the panel's margins. I'm still learning QML, so I'm not sure exactly how this is accomplished, both widgets seem to have "Layout.fillWidth = true" for a vertical panel. Anyhow, I should probably look into what other desktops do before trying to dig into that more. Most of them (Gnome, macOS, Windows 11) either don't have vertical panels, or don't display the time in panels. I believe XFCE and Windows 10 both allow clocks in vertical panels, and I have no idea how they deal with small panels. I'm not sure about Budgie, Cinnamon, Deepin, etc either.
Splitting the digits on either side of the : separator seems logical. So instead of: >12:06 …you'd have: > 12 > 06
Yes, that is how I would expect it to be done. There are some widgets that do this: https://store.kde.org/p/2139337 https://store.kde.org/p/1308921/