GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 167393
clock updates continuously even when second not shown
Last modified: 2006-01-19 20:55:45 UTC
(Reported by Kenny Hitt) run the clock applet while using gnopernicus note that even if seconds display is turned off, the applet time is spoken once per second. This makes the clock applet unusable by text-to-speech users. [This indicates that the text is emitting unnecessary text-changed events each second even when the display has not changed - this could be confirmed with at-spi/test/event-listener-test - Bill H] Reporter is using "gnome-2.8 from Debian unstable".
This appears to be a regression.
> Reporter is using "gnome-2.8 from Debian unstable". Is this happening on another distribution? I think Debian patches the clock applet... (see for example http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167198#c4) I don't think this will happen in 2.9.x either (the code in 2.9.x updates the clock text only when necessary).
> I don't think this will happen in 2.9.x either (the code in 2.9.x updates the > clock text only when necessary). There was a bug and the code in 2.9.x did update the clock every second. I have the fix and will commit it soon. However, this code was not in 2.8.x, IIRC.
Vincent, has this been committed?
Yes: 2005-02-19 Vincent Untz <vincent@vuntz.net> * clock.c: (clock_timeout_callback): fix update of the clock to happen every minute and not every second when we don't show seconds Bill: does it still happen for Kenny?
marking FIXEX as per last comment and no further complains