digital clock too fat for skinny vertical panels

[whorush]

the digital clock applet looks great on horizontal panels, but i have a laptop with a screen that is too short and too wide, so i make my panel vertical. the digital clock applet is the only applet that i use that doesn't fit very well.

what happens is that "01:33 PM" takes up so much horizontal space that it gets squeezed into such a small font size that it's really hard to read. one option is to take out the AM and PM, since i think the vast majority of the time you know which one it is. you don't have to take it totally, just make an option to show AM/PM or not.

and taking out the leading 0 will also help since it doesn't tell us anything and since 3/4 of the time the time is only three digits 1:33 as opposed to four digits 12:33. Also, if you're not using a fixed width font, 0 is fatter than 1.

one more funny thing is that the date font is bigger than the time font, which seems backwards to me?

[Mark Lee (malept)]

Thanks for filing a bug.

For future reference, the digital clock applet is part of the Awn Extras project. If you find any other problems with this applet, please file them in the Awn Extras bug tracker.