George Kettleborough <g.kettleboro...@uea.ac.uk> writes: > On Tue, Feb 28 2012, Bernt Hansen wrote: >> This patch needs a changelog entry in the commit text and a long >> description would also be appreciated. The long description allows us >> to see the purpose of the patch and how to use it without the necessity >> to read and parse any of the code changes. > > Ok, I've done a changelog entry. I hope this is what is expected. > (Also fixed a minor bug in original patch and added better documentation > to the new custom variable). > > The patch adds options to both org-clock and org-timer regarding how the > current clock/timer is displayed. Currently they are both displayed in > the mode line. This is not ideal since if you split your window > horizontally then the mode line becomes quite short so often the clock > is truncated and the timer might not even be visible. > > The new options control whether the clock/timer is displayed in the mode > line and/or frame title. The frame title is usually wasted space for > people running a graphical version of emacs so it is quite useful there > I think.
Thanks! I use frames on Windows at work and no frames on Linux (in xmonad) at home. I tend to run with emacs full screen so I haven't my modeline is long enough for me -- but it will be interesting to see how the frame title clock works. Regards, Bernt
