GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 72201
usability problems of clock properties
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:31 UTC
Clock applet is the only dialog in gnome-panel which uses old gnome-propertybox, and has apply buttons. It looks really ugly. 1) Settings must be instant-apply, all buttons replaced by just Close button. 2) UNIX time, internet time, normal time should be a group of radio buttons GMT and 12/24 format should be in a frame "Time format", and disabled in internet time case (UNIX time is always in GMT or no?). Show seconds option also should be added. Alternatively to [ ] Show seconds Time format: ( ) 12 hour (*) 24 hour it could be displayed as in current menu-panel clock, i.e. Time format: ( ) 3:00 AM ( ) 3:00:00 AM (*) 15:00 ( ) 15:00:00 3) "Show date in tooltip" option should be remuved, and date just always displayed.
Created attachment 6817 [details] [review] Partial patch by Todd posted to desktop-devel-list
This more or less blows away all kinds of freezes, right? Marking high just because of consistency; otherwise individually none of these are particularly important on their own.
Also, all labels lack accelerators, so it is keynav issue also
This would require redoing the docs. I vote against it for that reason.
There is no screenshot of properties dialog, so it will not affect docs people. I will just make it work and instant-apply for GNOME 2.0 today. I will not add/change any strings and leave options the same. Other changes should wait after 2.0 except: I would like to remove "Show tooltip" option from prefs, it should be true always. I would remove a line from docs also.
Okay, what's the status of this now ? You committed a patch - so should the bug be closed out? If not, what specifically is wrond now and do you have an outstanding patch?
Created attachment 6881 [details] Proposed GUI for clock properties dialog
All labels need accelerators. Show date in tooltip should always be true -->remove Need "Show seconds" option Unix->UNIX GMT->UTC (?) And I suggest rearrange dialog as shown in screenshot. Suggestions welcome. I do not have a patch for this, because these changes break string/UI freeze. When we agree on appearance and behavior, I will code a patch
fair enough. Putting it on the 2.0.x milestone
Unless there is a significant number of people who actually use them, I would vote for dropping "Internet time" and "UNIX time" altogether.
We really need an $I_AM_A_UNIX_GEEK env var that, when set, would auto-set or at least expose options like Unix time, emacs keybindings, etc. </halfjoking>
Gediminas has committed his patch AFAIK
I have just commited a patch which moves Internet & UNIX time inside Clock format frame, and adds show seconds option. So I think myself that this bug is fully fixed.