GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 319149
Clock looks weird when time/date gets shorter
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:26:33 UTC
Distribution/Version: SuSE 10, Ubuntu Breezy When I let my gnome session run for a long time, the clock starts to look weird: if the date gets shorter (11:11 in the morning, on the 1st of the month, for example), there's a lot of extra whitespace next to it. This whitespace clears when I click the clock. It does get wider as needed (around 20:00 on the 20th, for example, one of the "widest points" :))
Hrm... Screenshots would help to understand the problem :-)
Created attachment 61225 [details] Pre-click screenshot
Created attachment 61226 [details] Post-click screenshot
Note, the second screenshot is cropped a bit too far on the right side. The button looks normal/un-chopped.
Created attachment 61227 [details] Better post-click screenshot
*** Bug 341236 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The clock does not request smaller sizes when the text grows less wide. This is so that the clock does not resize every second when using a proportional font. When some events take place (for example, when the applet is clicked) then it rerequests its size. I cannot see an alternative that does not leave the applet resizing itself every second...
If you add support for pango style tags for the text (center would be an obvious default) it would fix this issue.
Created attachment 96449 [details] post-click on Gutsy is worse than before. Here on Ubuntu Gutsy beta, the click don't even resolve the problem. The clock continues slowly to eat pixels at times passes by (my machine is on everytime, and on S3 sleep when i don't use it ; the panel nearly never starts again).
This bug has been confirmed here for the past three years. The only way you can temporarily fix it is to drag the panel to some other area of the screen. If you enable the date as well as time, this bug becomes apparent within a few hours. Now it looks like developers are putting weather and temperature into the display area which will make this bug more obvious.
Hi, this bug is still occuring on latest Ubuntu Intrepid (gnome panel version 1:2.23.90.1-0ubuntu1) (see attachment).
Created attachment 117743 [details] Clock applet with mouse-over on Intrepid as of 2008-09-01, showing unused space on the left.
Created attachment 161900 [details] Screenshot - day changed (In reply to comment #7) > I cannot see an alternative that does not leave the applet resizing itself > every second... Could it then resize on 00:00? Attachment shows how it looks after change from the long "poniedziałek" (Monday) to short "wtorek" (Tuesday). The long gap in the right was not present before.
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