Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-10-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Garrett LeSage I hope sharing all this has provided a bit of insight and might help guide the future direction of the applet a bit. I hope you guys figure out a way to be able to do these kinds of changes out in the commons in future. The tight schedule, community is hard, let's go

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-10-04 Thread Murray Cumming
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 19:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On 10/3/07, Kjartan Maraas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All this should just come from libc. I don't think we should do anything special here at all. I think all the needed data is available in the locale data. That is where

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-10-04 Thread Kjartan Maraas
ons, 03.10.2007 kl. 19.23 -0400, skrev Matthias Clasen: On 10/3/07, Kjartan Maraas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All this should just come from libc. I don't think we should do anything special here at all. I think all the needed data is available in the locale data. That is where

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-10-03 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:55 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:41 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: New d-d-l rule: no one gets to say 'it is useful' without explaining their use case :) Luis (I believe you that you use it, but I can't for the life of me figure out why)

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-10-03 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:28 -0400, Hubert Figuiere wrote: But then you have to make sure week start right. Some consider week 1 starting January 1st (eventually being less than 7 days), some consider week 1 starting the first Sunday or Monday (oh another exception) of January. This is a major

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-10-03 Thread Kjartan Maraas
ons, 03.10.2007 kl. 12.28 -0400, skrev Hubert Figuiere: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:55 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:41 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: New d-d-l rule: no one gets to say 'it is useful' without explaining their use case :) Luis (I believe you that you

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-10-03 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 10/3/07, Kjartan Maraas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All this should just come from libc. I don't think we should do anything special here at all. I think all the needed data is available in the locale data. That is where GtkCalendar takes it from. Unfortunately, the week-start-data in glibc

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/25/07, Garrett LeSage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's useless clutter, relaly). I think the week number is there in the released versoin due to the way the GtkCalendar widget works. Those can (and should be) be turned off. The

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's useless clutter, relaly). I think the week number is there in the released versoin due to the way the GtkCalendar widget works. Those can (and should be) be turned

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2007-09-25 klockan 15:33 skrev Ross Burton: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's useless clutter, relaly). I think the week number is there in the released versoin due to the way the GtkCalendar

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/25/07, Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's useless clutter, relaly). I think the week number is there in the released versoin due to the way the

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 25 septembre 2007, à 09:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : On 9/25/07, Garrett LeSage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's useless clutter, relaly). I think the week number is there in the released versoin due to the way

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Richard Hult
Luis Villa skrev: On 9/25/07, Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's useless clutter, relaly). I think the week number is there in the released versoin due

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 25 septembre 2007, à 15:55 +0200, Richard Hult a écrit : Luis Villa skrev: On 9/25/07, Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's useless clutter,

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 25 septembre 2007, à 09:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : On 9/25/07, Garrett LeSage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's useless clutter, relaly). I think the week number is there in the released versoin due to the way

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:02 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Days with appointments/birthdays/etc are bold in the calendar. There were some bug reports suggesting changes to make this more visible, or to improve the use of the calendar, but this implies improving GtkCalendar, or using something

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 25 septembre 2007, à 15:09 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:02 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Days with appointments/birthdays/etc are bold in the calendar. There were some bug reports suggesting changes to make this more visible, or to improve the use of the

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Iain *
Oops, I forgot to reply to the second part. Days with appointments/birthdays/etc are bold in the calendar. Now that we have the new tooltips are we able to have a tooltip when the cursor is over the emboldened date to say why that date is special? iain

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Iain *
On 9/25/07, Iain * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, I forgot to reply to the second part. Days with appointments/birthdays/etc are bold in the calendar. Now that we have the new tooltips are we able to have a tooltip when the cursor is over the emboldened date to say why that date is

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Alan Cox
New d-d-l rule: no one gets to say 'it is useful' without explaining their use case :) Luis (I believe you that you use it, but I can't for the life of me figure out why) I use week number because everyone I deal with in Finland has phone calls meetings week 37 and the like for some

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:22 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Vincent, have you tried also looking at libjana widget set[1]? since the clock uses e-d-s as a source it should be interesting to reuse those widgets as well. I've been thinking about this when reading the blog posts, but that's

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Calvin Gaisford
On Sep 24, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: Yeah, the overall size of the thing is a concern. Maybe that is a reason why the Novell code has options to turn the map and the location list off, individually. Calvin, have you had complaints about the popup being too large ? I

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Alex Jones
I am still unsure as to why there even needs to be a concept of system time. System time should just be UTC, surely. If anonymous things like GDM need a local time to present to the user, then we should point it at a configurable user profile. This could serve for font settings etc., too. On

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/25/07, Alex Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still unsure as to why there even needs to be a concept of system time. System time should just be UTC, surely. If anonymous things like GDM need a local time to present to the user, then we should point it at a configurable user

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 00:34 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: Hi!, On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we should merge the clock applet with the intlclock that Novell has written. David and I

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Alex Jones
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:39 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem how you get every random piece of software to pick up the newly chosen timezone. Unless you write it to /etc/localtime. GConf ___ desktop-devel-list

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:56 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:39 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem how you get every random piece of software to pick up the newly chosen timezone. Unless you write it to /etc/localtime. GConf You're

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Alex Jones
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:01 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:56 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:39 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem how you get every random piece of software to pick up the newly chosen

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 21:33 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:01 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:56 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:39 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem how you get every

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Alex Jones
And I suppose you think that having all of those applications strftime'ing with arbitrary formatting strings, and then writing those strings to plain text log files is fine too. I'd quite like to leave the 20th century behind, personally. On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:57 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 25 septembre 2007, à 22:13 +0100, Alex Jones a écrit : And I suppose you think that having all of those applications strftime'ing with arbitrary formatting strings, and then writing those strings to plain text log files is fine too. We can stop doing this, but that doesn't

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 22:13 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: And I suppose you think that having all of those applications strftime'ing with arbitrary formatting strings, and then writing those strings to plain text log files is fine too. [...] I'd quite like to leave the 20th century behind,

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Alex Jones
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:22 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: I'm just saying that if you want the timezone stored elsewhere you need to make sure that the C library will pick it up. Do you disagree? ↓ (FWIW, it's pretty unclear to me what you mean, but I think you're trying to say that the

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Alex Jones
Literally seconds after I fire off my last email! OK, so how about we do this then? That allows us to keep libc using the main timezone, while having all the flexibility in the world to define interesting zones and use them cleverly in various GNOME apps. On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:42 -0400,

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:42 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: We just figured out how to do per-session timezones at the glibc level: (I wonder if this is GNU specific? man tzset suggests POSIX.) you can set TZ=:/home/alex/.localtime in the session environment, and then update the symlink

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/25/07, David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:42 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: We just figured out how to do per-session timezones at the glibc level: (I wonder if this is GNU specific? man tzset suggests POSIX.) you can set TZ=:/home/alex/.localtime

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Kjartan Maraas
tir, 25.09.2007 kl. 09.41 -0400, skrev Luis Villa: On 9/25/07, Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The screenshot of the calendar does not show the week number (it's useless clutter, relaly). I think the week number is

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-25 Thread Srinivasa Ragavan
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:22 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 25 septembre 2007, à 15:09 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:02 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Days with appointments/birthdays/etc are bold in the calendar. There were some bug reports suggesting

New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we should merge the clock applet with the intlclock that Novell has written. David and I have done some further work on it to support timezone setting and weather information, the current status of which you can see here:

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Alex Jones
Maybe an interesting timezones feature/setting would be useful in GNOME, so that other apps can join in the fun of multi-timezone awareness, with just one central place to configure it. Or do you think such a feature should only pertain to a clock? Anyone have any more use cases? On Mon,

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Lapo Calamandrei
Nice stuff, it may need some graphic love tho, any particular reason why the clock graphics are 50x50 and 36x36? It would be better to have them 48x48 and 32x32 as our icons. 2007/9/24, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/24/07, Alex Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe an interesting timezones feature/setting would be useful in GNOME, so that other apps can join in the fun of multi-timezone awareness, with just one central place to configure it. Or do you think such a feature should only pertain to a

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2007/9/24, Alex Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe an interesting timezones feature/setting would be useful in GNOME, so that other apps can join in the fun of multi-timezone awareness, with just one central place to configure it. Or do you think such a feature should only pertain to a clock?

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we should merge the clock applet with the intlclock that Novell has written. Why not include this in the existing gnome-panel module and avoid having two competing clock

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/24/07, Jason D. Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we should merge the clock applet with the intlclock that Novell has written. Why not include this in the existing

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you read my mail carefully (merge), that is exactly what is being proposed here. Two clock applets makes no sense at all, which is why we did not ship the intlclock in F8. Sorry, I thought you were asking for module proposal acceptance

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 12:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : Since everybody is making proposals for 2.22, here is my contribution: we should merge the clock applet with the intlclock that Novell has written. David and I have done some further work on it to support timezone

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/24/07, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calvin Gaisford and I have been discussing this a few weeks ago and he'll work on getting the two merged. My preference is to use the current backend code, and import the intltool UI in the clock. I don't think it will be really hard,

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey! On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/07, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calvin Gaisford and I have been discussing this a few weeks ago and he'll work on getting the two merged. My preference is to use the current backend code, and import the intltool

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Alan
I'd love to hear some feedback from others. There are some consistency issues most people can probably spot, like the [Edit] buttons should probably be [Edit...] since they open other windows to complete the interaction. Things like that I believe can be done pretty quickly and aren't worth

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 17:29 -0400, Bryan Clark a écrit : On 9/24/07, Diego Escalante Urrelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/07, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/24/07, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calvin Gaisford and I have been discussing

Re: New clock applet for 2.22

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 9/24/07, Diego Escalante Urrelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of UI, I have a little suggestion (based on the mockup on Fedora wiki). I see that below the world map there's a row that has a clock, the zone and the weather, it's really cool but I can imagine it filling a 1024x768