On 04/15/2012 10:24 AM, Humdinger wrote:
How about breaking out the Clock settings into it's own window and remove it from Deskbar? This would also save some awkwardness when somebody replaces his Clock replicant in the Deskbar, I guess.
The clock settings used to be completely contained in the right click menu of the time. That might not be obvious for everyone, but I think it worked well enough.
We could do away with it completely, if left-clicking the clock wouldn't open the calendar, but cycle through various display options on ever click: default, with seconds, with day-of-week and date in a seperate line. I think I remember that being the case in the past..
That would be pretty awkward. Originally, when you clicked the time, the date would be shown (and back).
Timezone information could be put into the tooltip. I still believe it's not information needed with every glance at the clock.
I would leave it out completely, indeed. It doesn't matter at all, really, and when you want to know it, you can still look for it in the Time preferences application.
Since I can imagine that English speaking folks rarely open the Locale prefs (maybe "Locale" isn't that good a name? "Language& Formatting" perhaps?), having the 12/24 hour setting additionally in the Time prefs ("Time& Date"?) wouldn't hurt.
I'm not fond of it. Having the same global setting in two different places is just a bad idea IMO.
Bye, Axel.