Another Clock Applet

by:

Telsa Gwynne

Copyright © 2000 by Telsa Gwynne and Eric Baudais

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Another Clock

Another Clock

The Another Clock applet is an analogue clock similar to that in the CDE (Common Desktop Environment, an earlier UNIX desktop environment) panel. In its default state it is a small analogue clockface with no background around it. It was part of the gnome-core package up to October GNOME (gnome-core-1.0.53). It is now distributed in gnome-applets. This guide describes the version distributed in gnome-applets-1.1.2.

To add Another Clock to your panel, you can click right click on an empty part of the panel and follow the sequence: Panel->Add to panel+Applets->Clocks->Another Clock or you can type the following command at a command line: another_clock_applet --activate-goad-server another_clock_applet

Figure 1. Another Clock Applet

Usage

You don't need to do anything special to this clock. It will just sit on your panel and tell the time for you.

  • Properties… — opens the Properties dialog.

  • Help — displays this document.

  • About… — shows basic information about APPLET Applet, inluding the applet's version and the author's name.

Preferences

The preferences dialogue box (which calls itself "Clock Settings" rather than preferences) is very simple. There are four colours that may be changed, and there is a checkbox.

Figure 2. Properties dialog

Clock colour

This is currently greyed-out, but in the future it will be possible to adjust the colour of the clockface.

Hour needle colour

Clicking on the box containing the colour here will invoke the GNOME colourwheel which will let you change the colour of the hour needle. The default is a very pale grey.

Minute needle colour

Clicking on the box containing the colour here will invoke the GNOME colourwheel which will let you change the colour of the minute needle. The default is a very pale grey.

Second needle colour

Clicking on the box containing the colour here will invoke the GNOME colourwheel which will let you change the colour of the second needle. The default is red.

Show seconds needle

Clicking on this checkbox lets you toggle whether the second needle is shown or not. It is shown by default.

Known Bugs and Limitations

  1. If you adjust the system clock backwards using the date command, the clock will stop working until the system time reaches the time the clock displays. It will start working normally then.

Authors

Another Clock was written by Iņigo Serna (). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports.

This manual was written by Telsa Gwynne () and Eric Baudais (). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to . You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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