| 2010-09-10 17:52:01 |
whorush |
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the digital clock applet looks great on flat 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? |
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?
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