Another Clock Applet

Copyright © 2000 by Telsa Gwynne and Eric Baudais

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Another Clock

Another Clock

Another Clock applet, shown in Figure 1, is a simple analog clock (similar to that in the CDE, Common Desktop Environment, panel). To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Clocks->Another Clock.

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 Another Clock Applet, inluding the applet's version and the author's name.

Customization

You can customize Another Clock by right-clicking on it and choosing Properties…. This will open the Properties dialog(shown in Figure 2), which allows you to change various settings.

Figure 2. Properties dialog

The properties are:

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

  • Hour needle color — Set this to the color you wish to use for the hour needle (hand) of the clock.

  • Minute needle color — Set this to the color you wish to use for the minute needle (hand) of the clock.

  • Second needle color — Set this to the color you wish to use for the second needle (hand) of the clock.

  • Show seconds needle — If this button is checked, the second needle (hand) of the clock will be shown.

After you have made all the changes you want, click on OK to apply the changes and close the Properties dialog. To cancel the changes and return to previous values, click the Cancel button.

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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