Hey all,
The following is a quick summary of the expected first release of the
clock applet which I've so far named "tailstime".
* "tailstime" - is that a good name for the applet?
* Default to UTC [1]
* Save configuration to ~/.config/tails/timezone
* Time and Date displayed as: "${DATE}, ${TIME}"
* Currently configured timezone is not displayed [2]
* Clicking on the applet provides a simple dropdown list of all
available timezones
for the user to select from with the current timezone indicated /
pre-selected [3]
* No configuration of how the time and date are displayed
* Time and Date format is i18n'd based on the country, derived from ??? [4]
Any and all feedback is requested at this time. Thanks!
[1] Depending upon just the configured country is not good enough as
there can
be more than one timezone depending on city
[2] I'm thinking we should actually include the timezone just so that
it's obvious to
the end-users what timezone is actually being displayed. Either
way it doesn't
bother me and is probably a line of code at most in order to
implement.
[3] This isn't actually HIG-compliant but on that note, applets are
deprecated and
actual gnome-shell extensions are idea. Being that Tails does not
use GNOME
Shell at all, I don't think HIG-iness is really relevant. Putting
the TZ configuration
into the dropdown is easier development-wise but if HIG-compliance
is desired
I'll implement a secondary Preferences dialog that is accessible
via the applet's
menu (via left-click as the right-click is for moving/removing and
I don't want
to delve into inserting the prefs there for the first version)
[4] Where should the country info be found? /etc/default/locale?
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