On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Stephan AÃmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
Actually, it isn't at all clear that this is a Deskbar setting. The clock is
displayed in the area where other applications and services install "stuff",
commonly known as the tray area. For all the user knows, the clock in that
area could come from some independent "time service" that is configured via
the Time preflet. That the clock happens to come from Deskbar itself is just
an implementation detail. So as you can see, it is not clear at all where to
look for settings to configure it's appearance.
I'm going to have to disagree there, for the simple reason that
Deskbar isn't the only app that necessarily displays a clock. The only
things I'd logically expect to find in the system time preferences is
precisely things that take effect system-wide and affect every app, as
time of day/time zone does. The format of the individual clocks is
exactly the kind of thing I would not be looking for there since
different apps would display that in varying ways depending on
purpose, i.e. I might want just minute precision in Deskbar, while in
a stopwatch app I would obviously want something more precise. Even if
something like the latter came bundled with the OS, that wouldn't be a
logical reason to also stuff its visual configuration in the time
preflet, and I've gone through precisely this merry-go-round on some
other OSes, and found it irritating to put it mildly.
